Taxonomy of meanings for 扇:　　

  • 扇 shān (OC: qhjen MC: ɕiɛn) 式連切 平 廣韻：【扇涼又式戰切 】
  • 扇 shàn (OC: qhjens MC: ɕiɛn) 式戰切 去 廣韻：【崔豹古今注舜作五明扇説文扉也式戰切四 】
    • FAN
      • nfan
      • vt(oN)to fan the contextually determinate N
      • vtoNto fan
      • similar shape> wing>DOOR
        • nleaf of interior door made of any material
      • handkerchief against sun or dust>CLOTH
      • grammaticalised>CLASSIFIERS
        • CASTRATE
            (=騸)
        • shànMORTAR
          • nHAN: mechanised winnowing device (YAN SHIGU: 扇車)

        Additional information about 扇

        說文解字: 【扇】，扉也。从戶、从翄省。 〔小徐本作「從戶、翅省。」〕 【式戰切】

          Criteria
        • DOOR

          1. Hù 戶 refers to a one-leaf minor door which may be the main door to an ordinary home. [HUANG 1995: 1017 - 1018; ill.: SUN 1991: 44-17]

          2. Shàn 扇 refers specifically to the wing of a door, and the word also refers to doors within a building complex, similar to hù 戶. [It seems that the word referred originally to the bamboo or reed courtain screening a doorway, and only later began to be used for the wing of a door. [HUANG 1995: 1018]

          3. Guī 閨 sometimes refers to the small door inside the living complex, but usually refers by synekdoche to the private quarters as a whole. [WANG 1993: 200; HUANG 1995: 1024; HANYU DACIDIAN: vol. 12, pp. 100]

          4. Gé 閤 refers to the small gate on the side of a main gate. [WANG 1993: 200; HUANG 1995: 1024 - 1026]

          NB: Yuè mén 月門 style doors were not current in pre-Buddhist China.

        • FAN

          1. The standard word for a fan is shàn 扇, and there are no current near-synonyms.