Chinese Character Wiki

叛

pàn

rebel

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

Components
反 meaning component

反  Meaning component

fǎn

  

reverse

半 sound component

半  Sound component

bàn

  

half

Evolution

叛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
叛 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
叛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

叛  

pàn

rebel; rebellion; rebellious; to betray; to rebel; to revolt

Most common words with 叛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

背叛

to betray

叛徒

traitor

叛逆

to rebel

叛乱

armed rebellion

叛军

rebel army

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 23.3221% of movies

1256th most common character in movies

1779th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+53DB

Shuowen

“叛，半也。从半，反聲。”


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