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姗

shān

Character Traditional 姍

What 姗 means

1. used in {姗姗|shān shān}

Example sentences

• 苏姗比我大两岁。
  Sū shān bǐ wǒ dà liǎng suì.
  Susan is two years older than I am.

Words starting with 姗

• 姗姗shān shān(of gait) unhurried; leisurely
• 姗姗来迟shān shān lái chíto be late; to arrive slowly; to be slow in the coming

Words containing 姗

• 罗姗Luó shānRoxanne or Roxane or Rosanna (name)

Characters built on 册

These share the phonetic component 册 (cè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 删shānto delete
• 珊shāncoral
• 跚shānused in 蹒跚

Characters that look like 姗

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 娜nà(phonetic na); used esp. in female names such as Anna 安娜
• 姻yīnmarriage connections
• 珊shāncoral
• 佬lǎomale; man (Cantonese)
• 姥lǎograndma (maternal)
• 逅hòuused in 邂逅

Sounds the same

Read shān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 山mountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 衫garment; jacket with open slits in place of sleeves
• 删to delete
• 珊coral
• 杉China fir; Cunninghamia lanceolata; also pr. shā
• 扇to fan; to slap sb on the face
• 煽to fan into a flame; to incite
• 潸tearfully
• 跚used in 蹒跚
• 钐samarium (chemistry)
• 舢sampan
• 膻(old) a flock of sheep or goats; variant of 膻