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Hanzi Character Search: 膻

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a rank odor; a technical term from Chinese medicine for the center of the chest
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 13 Total Strokes 17
Mandarin reading dàn shān tǎn Cantonese reading saan1 zin1
Japanese on reading tan Japanese kun reading kimo
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Specialized Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ shān ]    a flock of sheep (or goats), old variant of 膻[shan1], old variant of 羶[shan1]
⇒    [ shān ]    like ants pursuing a stink (idiom); the mob chases the rich and powerful, the crowd runs after trash

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