扇子

Chinese

		fan; to fan; (a measure word for doors, windows, etc.)	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (扇子)		扇	子
simp. #(扇子)		扇	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shànzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin³ zi²

• Gan (Wiktionary): sen⁴ zi
• Jin (Wiktionary): san³ zeh
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵soe-tsy
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): shenn⁴ zr

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shànzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shànzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: shan⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: shàn-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann.tzy
    • Palladius: шаньцзы (šanʹczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin³ zi²
    • Yale: sin jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin³ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin³ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn³³ t͡siː³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: sen⁴ zi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛn³⁵ t͡sz̩²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: san³ zeh
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /sæ̃⁴⁵ t͡səʔ⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵soe-tsy
    • MiniDict: soe^去 tsy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²soe-tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sø³³ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: shenn⁴ zr
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /ʂə̃⁴⁵ t͡sz̩³/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /sə̃⁴⁵ t͡sz̩³/

Noun

扇子

1. fan; hand fan (Classifier: 把 m)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 扇子 (“fan”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		扇
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		扇子
Mandarin	Beijing	扇子
	Taiwan	扇子
	Harbin	扇子
	Yantai (Muping)	扇子
	Jinan	扇子
	Luoyang	扇子
	Wanrong	扇子
	Xi'an	扇子
	Yinchuan	扇子
	Lanzhou	扇子
	Xining	扇子
	Ürümqi	扇子, 扇兒
	Wuhan	扇子
	Chengdu	扇子
	Guiyang	扇子
	Guilin	扇子
	Liuzhou	扇子
	Xuzhou	扇子
	Yangzhou	扇子
	Nanjing	扇兒, 扇子
	Hefei	扇子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	扇
	Hong Kong	扇
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	扇
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	扇
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	扇
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	扇
	Macau	扇
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	扇
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	扇
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	扇
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	扇
	Foshan	扇
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	扇
	Foshan (Shunde)	扇
	Foshan (Sanshui)	扇
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	扇
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	扇
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	扇
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	扇
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	扇
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	扇
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	扇
	Taishan	扇
	Kaiping (Chikan)	扇
	Enping (Niujiang)	扇
	Heshan (Yayao)	扇
	Dongguan	扇
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	扇
	Shaoguan	扇
	Yunfu	扇
	Yangjiang	扇
	Xinyi	扇
	Lianjiang	扇
	Nanning	扇
	Wuzhou	扇
	Yulin	扇
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	扇
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	扇
Gan	Nanchang	扇子
	Lichuan	扇
	Pingxiang	扇子
Hakka	Meixian	扇仔
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	扇
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	扇
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	扇
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	扇
	Conghua (Lütian)	提扇
	Yudu	扇子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	扇仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	扇仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	扇仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	扇
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	扇仔, 扇
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	扇
	Hong Kong	扇
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	扇子
	Senai (Huiyang)	扇
Huizhou	Jixi	扇
Jin	Taiyuan	扇子
	Xinzhou	扇子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	扇
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	扇, 蒲扇
Southern Min	Xiamen	扇, 扇仔
	Quanzhou	扇
	Zhangzhou	扇
	Taipei	葵扇
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	扇
	Kaohsiung	葵扇
	Yilan	扇, 葵扇
	Changhua (Lukang)	扇, 葵扇
	Taichung	葵扇
	Tainan	扇, 葵扇
	Hsinchu	扇, 葵扇
	Kinmen	扇, 葵扇
	Penghu (Magong)	扇, 葵扇
	Penang (Hokkien)	扇
	Singapore (Hokkien)	葵扇
	Manila (Hokkien)	葵扇
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	扇
	Chaozhou	扇
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	扇
	Leizhou	扇
	Haikou	扇
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	扇
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	扇
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	扇
Wu	Shanghai	扇子
	Shanghai (Chongming)	扇子
	Suzhou	扇子
	Danyang	扇子
	Hangzhou	扇子
	Ningbo	扇子
	Wenzhou	扇
	Jinhua	扇
Xiang	Changsha	扇子
	Loudi	扇子, 扇
	Shuangfeng	扇子
	Quanzhou	扇子, 扇

Descendants

• → Mongolian: шанз (šanz, “fan”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
扇	子
せん Grade: S	す Grade: 1
on’yomi	tōon

扇子

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 扇子.

First attested in Japanese in the Taiheiki of the late 1300s.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せんす [sèńsú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɰ̃sɨᵝ]

Noun

扇(せん)子(す) • (sensu) 

1. [from late 1300s] a hand-held folding fan: a hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth to generate a breeze

   Synonyms: 扇 (ōgi), 団扇 (uchiwa, more often refers to a fixed, non-folding fan)