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散 kanji
scatter, disperse, spend, squander
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
サン
Kun readings
ちるちらす-ちらすちらかすちらかるちらばるばらばらける
Words with 散
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —散財extravagant spending; wasteful spending; splurging; squandering
- —散水sprinkling water over; water sprinkling
- —散弾shot; buckshot
- —散乱dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
- —蒸散transpiration
- —退散dispersal; breaking up; running away; fleeing
- —飛散scattering (e.g. dust in the wind, enemies before an assault); dispersal; flying off (in all directions); flying apart
- —散華rite of scattering flowers; glorious death (in battle); heroic death
- —四散scattering (in all directions)
- —放散radiation; diffusion
- —消散evaporation; dispersion; dissipation
- —散光scattered light
- —散兵skirmisher
- —散票scattered votes
- —散逸being scattered and ultimately lost; dissipation
- —散開deployment; spreading out; dispersal
- —散薬powdered medicine
- —霧散dispersing; vanishing
- —逃散fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes
- —雲散scatter; disperse