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  • 1

    adj.loose; unrestricted

    • cūn mín zhù de hěn sǎn

      村民

      The villagers live rather far apart from one another.

    • qiè zéi xǐ jié le bàn gōng shì ná zǒu le yī kǒu dai sǎn bì

      窃贼洗劫办公室口袋

      Thieves ransacked the office, taking a sack of loose change.

    • yī xiē sǎn zuò yǒu shí hou shì zhěng zhuō dōu bèi yù dìng le

      一些时候预订

      Seats, or sometimes entire tables, were reserved.

  • 2

    v.become loose; fall apart

    • mù xiāng sǎn le

      The wooden box fell apart.

    • xíng li sǎn le

      行李

      The luggage has got loosened.

    • fà biàn sǎn le

      发辫

      The braids came loose.

  • 3

    n.(often used in traditional Chinese medicine names) medicinal powder

    • jiàn wèi sǎn

      健胃

      digestive powder

    • dà huáng sǎn

      大黄

      powdered rhubarb

    • sǎn jì

      powder

Words and phrases with 散

  • 散碎
    [word]fragmented
  • 散点图
    [word]scatter diagram
  • 散文
    [word]literary writings that do not observe the rules of rhyming; prose
  • 散座
    [word]seats in a theatre, not including the balcony and boxes; non-regular rickshaw customer
  • 散页
    [word]loose-leaf
  • 散养
    [word]raise in free range
  • 散股
    [word]odd lot stock
  • 散宜
    [word]a surname
  • 散曲
    [word]non-dramatic songs
  • 散散落落
    [idiom]fall here and there
  • 散兵游勇
    [idiom]stragglers and disbanded soldiers

Similar-form characters to 散

Chinese Characters with pinyin sǎn

  • umbrella; umbrella-shaped object