| sǎn | leisurely/loosen/powdered medicine/to scatter/to come loose |
| sàn | adjourn/scatter |
| 散 | leisurely loosen powdered medicine |
| 散乱 | in disorder messy |
| 散亡 | dispersed and lost |
| 散件 | spare parts odds and ends |
| 散伙 | to break up into components to disband to disperse |
| 散会 | to disperse a meeting to adjourn finished |
| 散体 | free prose style |
| 散佚 | be scattered and lost; be no longer extant |
| 散光 | astigmatism see also 散光 |
| 散光眼镜 | astigmatic glasses; astigmatic lenses |
| 散兵 | loose and disorganized soldiers stragglers fig. a loner |
| 散兵坑 | foxhole (military) |
| 散兵壕 | sangar; riflepit; rifle pit; shelter trench; fire trench |
| 散兵游勇 | lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action |
| 散兵线 | skirmish line |
| 散养 | free-range raising (of poultry, cattle etc) |
| 散出 | shed |
| 散剂 | powder medicine |
| 散匪 | scattered bandits fig. random jottings marginal notes |
| 散去 | drop off; drop away |