Chinese symbol for “shovel”
铲子
chǎn zi
Traditional: 鏟子
shovel; spade; trowel; spatula (kitchen utensil); measure word: 把 (bǎ)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shovel is 铲子 (chǎn zi), defined as: shovel; spade; trowel; spatula (kitchen utensil); measure word: 把 (bǎ).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shovel”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 锹 (鍬) | qiāo | shovel; spade |
| 锨 (鍁) | xiān | shovel |
| 铲 (剷) | chǎn | to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel |
| 攉 | huō | to shovel |
| 铲 (鏟) | chǎn | variant of 铲 (chǎn); (bound form) spade; shovel |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 铲子.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 铲除 (剷除) | chǎn chú | to root out; to eradicate; to sweep away; to abolish |
| 铲平 (剷平) | chǎn píng | to level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc) |
| 铲车 (鏟車) | chǎn chē | front loader (vehicle); 台 (tái) |
| 铲球 (鏟球) | chǎn qiú | (soccer) to do a sliding tackle |
| 锅铲 (鍋鏟) | guō chǎn | wok spatula; cooking spatula |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
| 儿子 (兒子) | ér zi | son |
| 电子 (電子) | diàn zǐ | electronic; electron (particle physics) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shovel”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.