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Kanji Detail for 煽 - "fan, incite, agitate"
煽
- Meaning
煽 means "fan, incite, agitate."
Fan - To kindle a fire.
Incite - To provoke; to egg on; to instigate.
Agitate - To stir up wind; to drink in one gulp (Japanese usage).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
fan; flap; instigate; agitate; bolster up; gulp down
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
stir up, incite, agitate, provoke
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to fan into a flame; to incite
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to stir up, to incite; to agitate, to provoke
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Using a fan to stir up fire and make it blaze. Hence stirring up people's hearts is also called 煽動 (to incite), 煽惑 (to mislead).
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