散 sàn

1. sàn verb to scatter
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 兵没粮草自散 'if troops do not have provisions then they will disperse by themselves' (CC-CEDICT '散'; Guoyu '散' sàn v 1; Kroll 2015 '散' sàn 1, p. 395; Suyu, p. 51; Unihan '散'; XHZD '散' sàn 1, p. 645)
2. sàn verb to spread
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '散'; Guoyu '散' sàn v 2; Kroll 2015 '散' sàn 1a, p. 395; XHZD '散' sàn 2, p. 645)
3. sàn verb to dispel
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (XHZD '散' sàn 3, p. 646)
4. sàn verb to fire; to discharge
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '散'; Guoyu '散' sàn v 4; XHZD '散' sàn 4, p. 646)
5. sǎn adjective relaxed; idle
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '散' sǎn adj 3; Kroll 2015 '散' sǎn 1, p. 396; XHZD '散' sǎn 1, p. 645)
6. sǎn adjective scattered
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (XHZD '散' sǎn 2, p. 645)
7. sǎn noun powder; powdered medicine
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '散'; Guoyu '散' sǎn n 1; Kroll 2015 '散' sǎn 2a, p. 396; XHZD '散' sǎn 3, p. 645)
8. sàn verb to squander
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '散' sàn 1b, p. 395)
9. sàn verb to give up
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '散' sàn 2, p. 395)
10. sàn verb to be distracted
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '散'; Guoyu '散' sàn v 3; Kroll 2015 '散' sàn 3, p. 395)
11. sǎn verb not regulated; lax
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '散' sǎn v 1; Kroll 2015 '散' sǎn 1a, p. 396; XHZD '散' sǎn 1, p. 645)
12. sǎn adjective not systematic; chaotic
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '散' sǎn adj 4; Kroll 2015 '散' sǎn 1b, p. 396)
13. sǎn verb to grind into powder
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '散' sǎn 2, p. 396)
14. sǎn noun a melody
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '散' sǎn 3, p. 396)
15. sàn verb to flee; to escape
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 逃走 (Guoyu '散' sàn v 5)
16. sǎn proper noun San
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '散' sǎn n 2)

Contained in

• 作鸟兽散(作鳥獸散) scatter like birds and beasts; to head off in various directions; to flee helter-skelter
• 闲散(閑散) idle; unused; at leisure
• 散话(散話) digression
• 散架 to fall apart; exhaustion
• 散闷(散悶) to divert oneself from melancholy
• 色散 dispersion
• 散座 single seat (in theater); irregular passenger (in rickshaw)
• 散座儿(散座兒) single seat (in theater); irregular passenger (in rickshaw)
• 一拍两散(一拍兩散) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate
• 散钱(散錢) to scatter money; to give to charity
• 蒸散 (plant) evapotranspiration
• 流散 diaspora
• 拆散 to scatter
• 好聚好散 to part without hard feelings; to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
• 疏散措施 evacuation; measures to evacuate a building in an emergency
• 散客 FIT (free independent traveler); individual traveler (as opposed to traveling with a group)
• 辐射散射(輻射散射) radiation scattering
• 树倒猢狲散(樹倒猢猻散) When the tree topples the monkeys scatter.; an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause
• 投閒置散 to discard; to not give importance to
• 披头散发(披頭散髮) with dishevelled hair
• 扩散(擴散) to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse
• 散出 to spill out
• 散光 astigmatism ; to diffuse light
• 五苓散 wuling powder; poria five powder; Hoelen five powder
• 吹散 to disperse
• 旅游集散(旅遊集散) tourism center or hub
• 散弹枪(散彈槍) shotgun
• 鸟兽散(鳥獸散) to scatter like birds and beasts
• 果实散播(果實散播) fruit dispersal
• 魂飞魄散(魂飛魄散) the soul flies away and scatters; to be frightened stiff; spooked out of one's mind
• 散心解闷(散心解悶) to divert one's mind from boredom
• 云散风流(雲散風流) clouds scatter, wind flows; the crisis settles down; people disperse home
• 散漫 undisciplined; unorganized
• 分散 to scatter; to disperse ; to distribute; to issue
• 散沙 scattered sand; fig. lacking in cohesion or organization
• 驱散(驅散) to disperse; to break up
• 散体(散體) free prose style
• 散斑成像 speckle imaging
• 一哄而散 to break up in an uproar
• 尽欢而散(盡歡而散) to disperse after a happy time; everyone enjoys themselves to the full then party breaks up
• 散工 to release from work at the end of the day
• 散焦 to defocus; bokeh
• 四散 to disperse; to scatter in all directions
• 散装(散裝) unpackaged [goods]
• 散会(散會) to disperse a meeting; to adjourn; finished
• 天下没有不散的筵席(天下沒有不散的筵席) all good things must come to an end
• 散热器(散熱器) radiator (for heating a room); radiator (for cooling an engine)
• 散逸 dispersal
• 散布(散佈) to spread; to scatter; to diffuse; to sprinkle; to disseminate

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• 卷四十二 志第二十二: 職官一 Volume 42 Treatises 22: Government Service 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 90
• 卷113 官氏志九 Volume 113 Treatise 9: Official Ranks Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 41
• 卷一百九十六 志第一百四十九 兵十 Volume 196 Treatises 149: Military 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 38
• 卷一百八十七 志第一百四十 兵一 Volume 187 Treatises 140: Military 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 32
• 卷45 韋閬 杜銓 裴駿 辛紹先 柳崇 Volume 45: Wei Lang, Du Quan, Pei Jun, Xin Shaoxian, Liu Chong Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 27
• 卷九十七　志第四十五下: 食貨五 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Finance and Economics 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 27
• 卷28　志第23 百官下 Volume 28 Treatises 23: Government Offices 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 25
• 卷一百七十六 志第一百二十九 食貨上四 Volume 176 Treatises 129: Finance and Economics 1d History of Song 宋史 — count: 25
• 卷一百六十九 志第一百二十二 職官九 Volume 169 Treatises 122: Offical Posts 9 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
• 卷一百四十二 志第九十五 樂十七 Volume 142 Treatises 95: Music 17 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24

Collocations

• 酌散 (酌散) 酌散 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 燕禮 第六 6. Banquet rites — count: 11
• 散爵 (散爵) 以散爵獻士及群有司 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《祭統》 A Summary Account of Sacrifices — count: 9
• 执散 (執散) 有執散爵者 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 燕禮 第六 6. Banquet rites — count: 8
• 实散 (實散) 升實散 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 燕禮 第六 6. Banquet rites — count: 6
• 民散 (民散) 政荒民散 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧山有樞 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Shan You Shu — count: 6
• 散地 (散地) 有散地 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 5
• 散带 (散帶) 散帶絰 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《雜記上》 Miscellaneous Records I — count: 5
• 能散 (能散) 積而能散 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 4
• 散宜 (散宜) 有若散宜生 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 君奭 Zhou Shu - Prince Shi — count: 4
• 散鹿 (散鹿) 散鹿臺之財 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 武成 Zhou Shu - Successful Completion of the War — count: 4