散

Translingual

Han character

散 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿月人大 (TBOK), four-corner 4824₀, composition ⿰⿱龷月攵)

Derived characters

• 撒

Descendants

• サ

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 472, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13265
• Dae Jaweon: page 825, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1465, character 15
• Unihan data for U+6563

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Chinese

trad.		散
simp. #		散

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 散
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (散) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
散	*saːnʔ, *saːns
糤	*saːnʔ
繖	*saːnʔ, *saːns
饊	*saːnʔ
鏾	*saːnʔ
潸	*sraːn, *sraːnʔ
霰	*sqʰeːns
撒	*saːd

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 竹 (“bamboo”) + 攴 (“to knock, to tap”) – to smash bamboos.

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *saːnʔ, *saːns) : semantic 肉 + phonetic 𢽳 ().

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 散

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
6. mixed and disorderly; miscellaneous
7. (literature) free from parallelism
8. careless; incautious; inattentive
9. ordinary; useless
10. (traditional Chinese medicine) medicine in powder form

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 散

1. to break up; to disperse; to scatter
2. to distribute; to disseminate
3. to open; to open wide
4. to dissipate; to distract; to find diversion
5. to run away; to escape; to flee
6. to express; to declare; to explain
7. to end; to finish; to be over
8. to lose; to miss
9. herd; graze
10. chaotic; helter-skelter

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

散

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. scatter

Readings

• Go-on: さん (san, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: さん (san, Jōyō)
• Kun: ちらかす (chirakasu, 散らかす, Jōyō); ちる (chiru, 散る, Jōyō); ちらす (chirasu, 散らす, Jōyō); ちらかる (chirakaru, 散らかる, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 散逸(さんいつ) (san'itsu)
• 散開(さんかい) (sankai)
• 散見(さんけん) (sanken)
• 散光(さんこう) (sankō)
• 散在(さんざい) (sanzai)
• 散財(さんざい) (sanzai)
• 散策(さんさく) (sansaku)
• 散々(さんざん) (sanzan)
• 散水(さんすい) (sansui)
• 散村(さんそん) (sanson)
• 散弾(さんだん) (sandan)
• 散発(さんぱつ) (sanpatsu)
• 散髪(さんぱつ) (sanpatsu)
• 散布(さんぷ) (sanpu)
• 散文(さんぶん) (sanbun)
• 散歩(さんぽ) (sanpo)
• 散漫(さんまん) (sanman)
• 散乱(さんらん) (sanran)
• 散(ちり)蓮華(れんげ) (chirirenge)

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Korean

Hanja

散 • (san) (hangeul 산, revised san, McCune–Reischauer san, Yale san)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 散 (tản, tảng, tan, tởn, tán)

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