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舢

shān

Character

What 舢 means

1. sampan

Words starting with 舢

• 舢板shān bǎnsampan; also written 舢舨
• 舢舨shān bǎnvariant of 舢板

Characters built on 山

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

• 岸ànbank; shore; beach; coast
• 岩yáncliff; rock
• 炭tànwood charcoal; coal
• 灿cànglorious; bright; brilliant
• 崭zhǎntowering; prominent; very
• 汕shànbamboo fish trap; used in names of places connected with Shantou 汕头
• 岚lán(bound form) mountain mist
• 讪shànto mock; to ridicule; to slander

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
• 煽to fan into a flame; to incite
• 潸tearfully
• 跚used in 蹒跚
• 钐samarium (chemistry)
• 膻(old) a flock of sheep or goats; variant of 膻