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煽

shān

Character

What 煽 means

1. to fan into a flame
2. to incite

Example sentences

• 仇恨言论会煽动私刑。
  Hate speech incites lynchings.

Words starting with 煽

• 煽动shān dòngto incite; to instigate
• 煽情shān qíngto stir up emotion; to arouse sympathy; moving
• 煽动性shān dòng xìngprovocative
• 煽阴风shān yīn fēngto raise an ill wind
• 煽风点火shān fēng diǎn huǒ(idiom) to fan the flames; to incite people; to stir up trouble
• 煽动颠覆国家罪shān dòng diān fù guó jiā zuìcrime of conspiring to overthrow the state
• 煽动颠覆国家政权shān dòng diān fù guó jiā zhèng quánincitement to subvert state power (criminal charge used to gag free speech)

Words containing 煽

• 反革命宣传煽动罪fǎn gé mìng xuān chuán shān dòng zuìthe crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda

Characters that look like 煽

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

• 播bō(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc)…
• 踢tīto kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
• 箔bóplaited matting (of rushes, bamboo etc); silkworm basket; metal foil
• 撸lū(dialect) to grasp (sth long or cylindrical) and slide the hand up or down…
• 踞jùto be based upon; to squat
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳

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
• 姗used in 姗姗
• 潸tearfully
• 跚used in 蹒跚
• 钐samarium (chemistry)
• 舢sampan
• 膻(old) a flock of sheep or goats; variant of 膻