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Kanji for Folding fan
The kanji for “folding fan” is 扇, read sen and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
folding fan
A folding fan; it opens out like a future widening.
Sensu, Japanese folding fans, were invented in Kyoto during the early Heian period using thin wooden slats.
10 strokes On reading セン (sen) Kun reading おうぎ (ougi) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: fan, folding fan
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ou, sen
In Japan it appears in about 84 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 扇: Oda 扇太 · Autumn 扇太夢
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