shan

IPA: ʃˈæn

A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.
The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family.
A state of Myanmar.
The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.

Examples of "shan" in Sentences

I will see to it that your bearing a title shan't hurt you. "
The Japanese troops landed in Lao-shan Bay on September 18, the small
"Swear that my name shan't be brought into it -- that no one shall ever know."
'Noa yo' shan't see her, 'said the grim old fellow --' an if there's a God above, yo 'shan't see her in heaven nayder!'
It is two o'clock when we reach the Jordan Valley, at a point a little south of Beth-shan, which is on the west side of the river.
The effects of atmosphere, here as elsewhere, help to indicate the passage of time in shan-shui, or to emphasize the transitory quality of the moment in which the viewer observes the various phenomena assembled around the host mountain.
Though American traders were probably unaware of the centuries-old cross-fertilization that resulted in shan shui and willow patterns, their visits to the private gardens of the hong merchants clearly affected their overall outlook on China.
If the people running the show when fit hits the shan are the same people who remember living in Korea when there was only one flavor of ice cream, who didn't know how to use a shower or a bed, then I'm pretty skeptical that they're going to be able to rise to the occasion of actually launching whatever magical economic revolution that Sterling imagines.