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)
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 | |
|---|---|
| 扇 | 子 |
| せん Grade: S |
す 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]
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- [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
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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