铲鏟 in English
- to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds) / to shovel (variant of 剷|铲[chan3]) / (bound form) spade / shovel
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 鏟, the traditional character: 铲 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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两名女子挥舞著巨大的锅铲，不停地翻炒著盛满咖哩酱汁的牛肉丝。
Two women wielding giant spatulas continuously stir a brimming wok of shredded beef simmering in curry sauce.
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他用铲子刮掉黏在地上的广告单。
He uses a spatula to scrape off advertisements that were stuck on the ground.
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你把锅铲怎么处理了？
What did you do with the spatula?
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你把锅铲放在哪里？
Where do you keep the spatula?
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当迈克试图铲球的时候，他用手推了对方球员一把，结果得到了黄牌警告。
When Mike tried to tackle the other player, he pushed him and he was given a yellow card and a warning.
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我只用一天就用铲子挖了一个大坑。
I dug a huge pit with my shovel in just one day.
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把锅铲递给我。
Pass me the spatula.
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汤姆从抽屉里拿出一把锅铲。
Tom took a spatula out of the drawer.