Chinese Word of the Day

手铲
shǒu chǎn

hand spade

Definitions

Components
手	shǒu
1. hand
2. expert; master
高手 - master
3. -ist; -er
歌手 - singer
4. convenient; handy; portable
手機 - mobile phone
手冊 - handbook
5. handwritten
6. (Min Nan) luck in gambling
7. (Mainland China Hokkien)
8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
9. (finance)
10. usage. In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, 手 refers to the arm and hand collectively.
铲
1. Simplified form of 鏟
2. Simplified form of 剷
剷
1. Variant of 鏟
2. usage. See 鏟Usage notes.
3. (Hokkien) Alternative form of 㔊 (thóaⁿ)
鏟	chǎn
1. spade; shovel; scoop
2. to shovel; to level off
3. to root out; to destroy
4. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to delete (data on a computer or other device)
剷咗個 app - to delete the app
5. usage. The traditional form 剷 is usually reserved for the verb sense.
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