Chinese Character Wiki

扳

bān, pān

pull

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

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

反 sound component

反  Sound component

fǎn

  

reverse

Definitions

扳  

bān

pull; drag; right itself; to pull; to turn (sth) around; to turn around (a situation); to recoup

扳  

pān

variant of 攀[pān]

Most common words with 扳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扳

to pull

扳机

(gun) trigger

扳回

to pull back

扳手

spanner

扳动

to pull out

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤran

paen

pān

pull forward


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.1280% of movies

2279th most common character in movies

3169th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6273


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