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判

pàn

judge

Original meaning: 

cut open

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 半 represents the sound.

Components
半 sound component

半  Sound component

bàn

  

half

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

判 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
判 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

判  

pàn

judge; discriminate; conclude; to judge; to sentence; to discriminate; to discern; obviously (different)

Most common words with 判
Freq.
Word
Meaning

判断

to judge

谈判

to negotiate

审判

a trial

判

to judge

判决

to sentence

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰˤan-s

phanH

pàn

divide


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 38.2989% of movies

895th most common character in movies

719th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5224

Shuowen

“判，分也。从刀，半聲。”


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