扇子

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Chinese

fan; to fan; (a measure word for doors, windows, etc.)
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
trad. (扇子)
simp. #(扇子)

Pronunciation


Noun

扇子

  1. fan; hand fan (Classifier: m)

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Mongolian: шанз (šanz, fan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
せん
Grade: S

Grade: 1
on'yomi tōon
扇子

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 扇子.

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

Pronunciation

Noun

(せん)() (sensu

  1. 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. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN