铲
to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,541 U+94F2
How 铲 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
钅 (semantic, “metal”) + 产 (phonetic, chǎn)
How to remember it
small shovel · Heisig RSH #2710
metal + 产 products
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 产
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 产 (chǎn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 产 sound component | chǎn | to give birth, to bring forth, to produce |
| 彦 | yàn | elegant |
| 浐 | chǎn | a river in Shaanxi province |
Words containing 铲
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小铲子 | xiǎo chǎn zi | trowel |
| 铲运机 | chǎn yùn jī | carry-scraper |
| 铲土机 | chǎn tǔ jī | bulldozer; wheel loader |
| 铲运车 | chǎn yùn chē | front loader (vehicle) |
| 铲雪车 | chǎn xuě chē | snowplow |
| 铲子 | chǎn zi | shovel; spade; trowel; spatula (kitchen utensil); CL:把[ba3] |
| 电铲 | diàn chǎn | power shovel |
| 铲平 | chǎn píng | to level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc) |
| 铲车 | chǎn chē | front loader (vehicle); CL:臺|台[tai2] |
| 反铲 | fǎn chǎn | backhoe |
| 铲球 | chǎn qiú | (soccer) to do a sliding tackle |
| 铲屎官 | chǎn shǐ guān | (neologism) (coll.) pet owner (lit. "official in charge of cleaning up poop") |
| 铲除 | chǎn chú | to root out; to eradicate; to sweep away; to abolish |
| 泥铲 | ní chǎn | trowel |
| 锅铲 | guō chǎn | wok spatula; cooking spatula |
| 刮铲 | guā chǎn | scraper |
| 铲蹚 | chǎn tāng | to hoe; to weed (between crop rows) |