散
Meanings
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- 1.to scatter
- 2.to break up (a meeting etc)
- 3.to disperse
- 4.to disseminate
- 5.to dispel
- 6.(coll.) to sack
- 1.variant of 散[sàn]
- 1.scattered
- 2.loose
- 3.to come loose
- 4.to fall apart
- 5.leisurely
- 6.powdered medicine
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Wiktionary
- 1.free and unfettered
- 2.natural and restrained; at ease
- 3.loose; free
- 4.to become loose; to break apart; to fall apart
- 5.scattered; fragmentary; odd; apart; sporadic; temporary
- 6.mixed and disorderly; miscellaneous; random
- 7.free from parallelism
- 8.careless; incautious; inattentive
- 9.ordinary; useless
- 10.medicine in powder form
- 11.to sprinkle; to spread (such as salt, powder, wood, ashes, medicinal powder, sawdust, fuel, etc.)
- 12.to put on the fire (such as wood or fuel)
- 13.to gobble; to devour; to gorge
- 14.casually; at random; carelessly; haphazardly; randomly; as one pleases; without restraint or goal
- 15.to break up; to disperse; to scatter
- 16.to distribute; to disseminate
- 17.to open; to open wide
- 18.to dissipate; to distract; to find diversion
- 19.to run away; to escape; to flee
- 20.to express; to declare; to explain
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Etymology
The original version visible on oracle bone script is 㪔, hence Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 林 (“trees, forest”) + 攴 (“to knock, to tap”), also written with hemp stalks 𣏟 (> 𢽳) or bamboo 竹 instead of two trees. The original meanings are "to clear a place from vegetation; to kill". The character later started meaning "to dissipate, to disperse" since bamboo in particular breaks easily into pieces; eventually, the meaning shifted to "to walk around, to stroll". Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *saːnʔ, *saːns): semantic 肉 + phonetic 𢽳, written as 𣀙, in which 林 is well visible on top. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjwar ~ g/b-sjwa-n/t (“flow; pour; scatter; spill; sow; broadcast”). Cognate with 撒 (OC *saːd, “to cast away; to let go”), 宣 (OC *sqʰon, “to spread; to proclaim”), Tibetan འཆོར་བ ('chor ba, “to escape; to flow out”), Burmese သွန် (swan, “to pour out; to spill”), Lahu šē (“to sow; to broadcast”), Lahu šêʔ (“to pour; to spill; to disperse; to sow; to broadcast”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我去公园散了步。
I went for a walk in the park.
天下无不散之筵席。
All good things must come to an end.
警察驅散了這場鬥毆。
The police broke up the fight.
癌細胞已經擴散到她的胃。
The cancer has spread to her stomach.
炎熱潮濕的天氣使我們變得懶散。
Hot and humid weather makes us lazy.
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