Chinese Character Wiki
凡

fán

all

Original meaning: 

tray

Depicts a wide and flat object such as a tray or plate, now written as 槃. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

凡 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
凡 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
凡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
凡 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
凡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

凡  

fán

all, any, every; ordinary, common; ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale

凡 (凢) 

fán

variant of 凡[fán]

Most common words with 凡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凡

ordinary

平凡

commonplace

非凡

out of the ordinary

凡是

every

凡事

everything

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (1 verified)

服 佩

Sound component in 10 characters (6 verified)

風 风 般 凤 鳳 矾 帆 梵 釩 钒

Iconic component in 4 characters (4 verified)

同 般 旁 歬

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]rom

bjom

fán

in every case


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.2513% of movies

1538th most common character in movies

1013th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+51E1

Shuowen

“凡，最括也。从二。二，偶也。从ㄋ。ㄋ，古文及。”


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