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铲

chǎn

Character Traditional 剷

What 铲 means

1. to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel

Other readings

铲 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• chǎnvariant of {铲|chǎn}; spade; shovel

Example sentences

• 把锅铲递给我。
  Pass me the spatula.
• 汤姆握紧了铲子。
  Tāngmǔ wò jǐn le chǎnzi.
  Tom clenched the shovel.
• 汤姆在外头铲雪。
  Tom is out shoveling snow.
• 锅铲被你怎么了？
  What did you do with the spatula?
• 你把锅铲放在哪里？
  Where do you keep the spatula?
• 你把锅铲怎么处理了？
  What did you do with the spatula?

Words starting with 铲

• 铲除chǎn chúto root out; to eradicate; to sweep away; to abolish
• 铲子chǎn zishovel; spade; trowel; spatula (kitchen utensil)
• 铲平chǎn píngto level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc)
• 铲球chǎn qiú(soccer) to do a sliding tackle
• 铲车chǎn chēfront loader (vehicle)
• 铲土机chǎn tǔ jībulldozer; wheel loader
• 铲运机chǎn yùn jīcarry-scraper
• 铲运车chǎn yùn chēfront loader (vehicle)
• 铲雪车chǎn xuě chēsnowplow
• 铲屎官chǎn shǐ guān(neologism; colloquial) pet owner (lit. "official in charge of cleaning up poop")
• 铲蹚chǎn tāngto hoe; to weed (between crop rows)

Words containing 铲

• 反铲fǎn chǎnbackhoe
• 泥铲ní chǎntrowel
• 锅铲guō chǎnwok spatula; cooking spatula
• 电铲diàn chǎnpower shovel
• 小铲子xiǎo chǎn zitrowel
• 刮铲guā chǎnscraper

Characters built on 产

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

• 彦yànaccomplished; elegant
• 浐chǎnname of a river in Shaanxi province; see 浐河

Characters that look like 铲

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

• 萨sàused in 菩萨; used in transliteration
• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off
• 舒shūto stretch; to unfold; to relax
• 轿jiàosedan chair; palanquin; litter
• 铠kǎiarmor

Sounds the same

Read chǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 产to give birth; to reproduce; to produce
• 阐to express; to disclose; to enlighten
• 谄to flatter; to cajole
• 浐name of a river in Shaanxi province; see 浐河
• 蒇to complete; to prepare
• 冁smilingly
• 丳skewer
• 啴used in 啴啴
• 𡶴winding mountain path
• 旵(literary) (of sunlight) to beam down; to illuminate…
• 𬊤to make a fire
• 讇to talk in one's sleep; old variant of 谄