bàn
dress up
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 分 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
bàn
dress up; dress up as; to disguise oneself as; to dress up; to play (a role); to put on (an expression)
Most common words with 扮
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to act | ||
to decorate | ||
to dress up | ||
to decorate | ||
to impersonate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 28.4318% of movies
1249th most common character in movies
1974th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+626E |
Shuowen | “扮,握也。从手,分聲。讀若粉。” |
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