散
Meaning
- to scatter
- to break up (a meeting etc)
- to disperse
Example sentence
车要散架了。
This car is going to break down.
The character 散
散 is sàn for breaking up — 散会 for a meeting ending, 分散 to scatter — and sǎn for what is loose and unbound, 散文 prose. 散步, a walk, is sàn: going nowhere in particular.