shān

stir up

To fan  the flames ; also provides the pronunciation

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

扇 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

shànshān

  

fan

Evolution

煽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
煽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shān

stir up, incite, agitate, provoke; to fan into a flame; to incite

Most common words with 煽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

煽动

to incite

to incite

煽情

moving

煽动性

provocative

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6269% of movies

2896th most common character in movies

3086th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+717D

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“煽,熾盛也。从火,扇聲。”


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