A folding hand fan.
A rigid hand fan.
hand fan (plural hand fans)
- A hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose of cooling the user.
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hand-held device
- Armenian: հովհար (hy) (hovhar)
- Assamese: বিচনী (bisoni)
- Belarusian: ве́ер m (vjéjer)
- Bulgarian: ветри́ло (bg) n (vetrílo)
- Catalan: ventall (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 扇子 (zh) (shànzi)
- Chittagonian: বিচৈন (bisoin), বিচেইন (bisein)
- Czech: vějíř (cs) m
- Finnish: viuhka (fi)
- French: éventail (fr) m
- Hungarian: legyező (hu)
- Japanese: 扇子 (ja) (sensu) (folding), うちわ (ja) (uchiwa) (rigid)
- Korean: 부채 (ko) (buchae)
- Latin: flābellum n
- Latvian: vēdeklis m
- Macedonian: ладало n (ladalo), лепе́за f (lepéza)
- Malayalam: വിശറി (ml) (viśaṟi)
- Ottoman Turkish: یلپازه (yelpaze)
- Polish: wachlarz (pl) m
- Portuguese: leque (pt) m
- Russian: ве́ер (ru) m (véjer)
- Slovak: vejár m
- Slovene: pahljača (sl) f
- Spanish: abanico (es) m, pantalla (es) f (rigid, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
- Sylheti: ꠛꠤꠌꠂꠘ (bisoin), ꠛꠤꠌꠥꠁꠘ (bisuin), ꠙꠣꠈꠣ (faxá)
- Thai: พัด (th) (pát) (typically rigid)
- Turkish: yelpaze (tr)
- Ukrainian: ві́яло n (víjalo), вахля́р (uk) m (vaxljár)
- Vietnamese: quạt (vi)
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