bàn
companion
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 半 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.b]ˤanʔ | banX | bàn | comrade |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 38.6032% of movies
1009th most common character in movies
1298th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+4F34 |
Shuowen | “伴，大皃。从人，半聲。” |
Sources
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