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- to scatter
- to break up (a meeting etc)
- to disperse
- to disseminate
- to dispel
- (coll.) to sack
- FIT (free independent traveler); individual traveler (as opposed to one who travels with a group)
- (broadly) prose (as opposed to verse)
- (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
- bulk baijiu (i.e. clear Chinese liquor) (abbr. for 散裝白酒|散装白酒[san3 zhuang1 bai2 jiu3])
Trad. 散裝
- loose goods
- goods sold open
- draft (of beer, as opposed to bottled)
Trad. 散錢
- small sum of money
- loose change
- Cantonese equivalent of 零錢|零钱[ling2 qian2]
- (literary) idle; unemployed
- (literary) (of writing) leisurely and verbose
Trad. 閒散
- laid back; leisurely
- (of resources: workers, funds etc) unused; idle
- to assemble (goods, passengers etc from various locations) and dispatch (them)
Trad. 離散
- (of family members) separated from one another; scattered about; dispersed
- (math.) discrete
Trad. 飛散
- (of smoke) to disperse; to dissipate
- (of birds) to fly away in all directions
- Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar
Trad. 散座兒
- erhua variant of 散座[san3 zuo4]
- single seat (in theater)
- irregular passenger (in rickshaw)
Trad. 散熱器
- radiator (for heating a room)
- radiator (for cooling an engine)
- wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM)
- poria five powder
- Hoelen five powder
- five ling powder
Trad. 披頭散髮
- with dishevelled hair (idiom)
- with one's hair down
Trad. 不歡而散
- to part on bad terms
- (of a meeting etc) to break up in discord
Trad. 散心解悶
- to divert one's mind from boredom (idiom)
Trad. 煙消雲散
- (idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
Trad. 作鳥獸散
- lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
- fig. to head off in various directions
- to flee helter-skelter
Trad. 風流雲散
- lit. dispersed by wind and scattered like clouds (idiom); fig. scattered far and wide (of friends and relatives)
Trad. 如鳥獸散
- lit. to scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
- fig. to flee in all directions
Trad. 魂飛魄散
- lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom)
- fig. to be frightened stiff
- spooked out of one's mind
- terror-stricken
Trad. 一拍兩散
- (idiom) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate
Trad. 人心渙散
- (of a nation, government etc) demoralized
- disunited
Trad. 陰魂不散
- lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom)
- fig. the influence still lingers on
- the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive
Trad. 擴散周知
- to let everyone know
- spread the word!
Trad. 雲散風流
- lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom); the crisis settles down
- people disperse home
- things return to normal
Trad. 雲消霧散
- the clouds melt and the mists disperse (idiom)
- to clear up
- to vanish into thin air
- (idiom) to part without hard feelings; to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
Trad. 盡歡而散
- to disperse after a happy time (idiom)
- everyone enjoys themselves to the full then party breaks up
Trad. 一盤散沙
- lit. like a sheet of loose sand
- fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
Trad. 不見不散
- lit. Even if we don't see each other, don't give up and leave (idiom)
- fig. Be sure to wait!
- See you there!
Trad. 散兵遊勇
- lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action
Trad. 樹倒猢猻散
- When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause
- Rats leave a sinking ship.
Trad. 旅遊集散中心
- tour group assembly and dispatch center
Trad. 不擴散核武器條約
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Trad. 光纖分散式資料介面
- (Tw) Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
Trad. 天下沒有不散的宴席
- see 天下沒有不散的筵席|天下没有不散的筵席[tian1 xia4 mei2 you3 bu4 san4 de5 yan2 xi2]
Trad. 天下沒有不散的筵席
- all good things must come to an end (idiom)