Kanji1 / 12
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
- —一家離散the breakup (dispersal) of a family
- —散乱反射scatter reflections
- —散歩日和ideal weather for a walk
- —分散恋愛(gen. of a woman) loving two or more partners without favour
- —瞳孔散大pupil dilation; mydriasis
- —散形花序umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)
- —集散花序cymose inflorescence (any determinate simple inflorescence); cyme
- —散房花序corymbose inflorescence; corymb
- —適応放散adaptive radiation
- —拡散反射diffuse reflection
- —分散制御decentralized control
- —分散配置distributed, decentralized arrangement
- —散開星団open cluster
- —飛散防止antiscattering; shatter-resistant; shatterproof
- —注意散漫inattention; distraction; mind-wandering
- —発散級数divergent series
- —散茶女郎prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)
- —強制解散compulsory winding-up; winding-up by a court; compulsory liquidation; involuntary dissolution
- —早期解散early dissolution (parliament, diet, etc.)
- —定散二善wholesomeness while meditating and in one's daily affairs