闪 — Chinese character
闪
shǎn
flash, lightning; to dodge, to evade
- Pinyin
- shǎn
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 门 人
- Formation
- ideographic — A man 人 just glimpsed through a door 门
- Traditional
- 閃
Common words with 闪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闪电 (閃電) | shǎn diàn | lightning; measure word: 道 (dào) |
| 闪亮 (閃亮) | shǎn liàng | brilliant; shiny |
| 闪耀 (閃耀) | shǎn yào | to glint; to glitter |
| 闪烁 (閃爍) | shǎn shuò | to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate |
| 闪光 (閃光) | shǎn guāng | flash |
| 闪闪 (閃閃) | shǎn shǎn | flickering; sparkling; glistening; glittering |
| 闪过 (閃過) | shǎn guò | to flash through (one's mind); to dodge (away from pursuers) |
| 闪开 (閃開) | shǎn kāi | to get out of the way |
| 闪光灯 (閃光燈) | shǎn guāng dēng | flash bulb (photography) |
| 闪存 (閃存) | shǎn cún | (computing) flash memory |
| 闪现 (閃現) | shǎn xiàn | to flash |
| 闪退 (閃退) | shǎn tuì | (of an app) to crash |
English words written with 闪
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.