扇子

Chinese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Pronunciation


Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. fan; hand fan (Classifier: m)

Synonyms

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

  • Mongolian: шанз (šanz, fan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
せん
Grade: S

Grade: 1
on’yomi tōon
扇子

Etymology

Ultimately from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

First attested in Japanese in the Taiheiki of the late 1300s.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んす [sèńsú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [sẽ̞ɰ̃sɨᵝ]

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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