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铲 chǎn spade

spade; shovel

How to remember 铲: 钅 gold + 产 to give birth = spade. The farmer's cow is about to give birth, so he digs through the snow to the barn with his lucky gold-painted spade.

  • HSK 9
  • 11 strokes
  • Radical 钅

Component breakdown

铲 = 钅 gold + 产 to give birth

  • 钅 gold
  • 产 to give birth
    • 亠 lid
    • 丷 horns
    • 厂 factory
The Gushi story

The farmer's cow is about to give birth, so he digs through the snow to the barn with his lucky gold-painted spade.

How it is used

  • A spade/shovel and the verb to shovel or scrape off: 铁铲 (tiěchǎn) a spade, 铲雪 (chǎn xuě) to shovel snow, 锅铲 (guōchǎn) a kitchen spatula/turner.
  • 铲 emphasizes scraping/lifting off a flat surface - 把泥铲掉 (bǎ ní chǎn diào) scrape the mud off.
  • Figurative 铲除 (chánchú) to root out/eradicate, e.g. crime or weeds.