pān
climb
Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 樊 represents the sound. Originally written as 𠬜, which depicts two hands facing away from each other, representing the action of climbing.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
pān
climb; pull; hang on to; to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
Most common words with 攀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to implicate | ||
to clamber up | ||
to climb | ||
to emulate | ||
social climbing |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰˤran | phaen | pān | pull oneself up |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.2516% of movies
2678th most common character in movies
2439th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+6500 |
Shuowen | “，引也。从反廾。，或从手从樊。” |
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