汾 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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fén

river in Shanxi province

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 分 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

分 Sound component

fēn, fèn

divide

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

fén

river in Shanxi province; name of a river

Most common words with 汾

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	汾	name of a river
	临汾	Linfen prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
	临汾市	Linfen prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
	汾酒	Fenjiu (sorghum-based Chinese liquor)
	汾河	Fen River

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3766th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+6C7E
Shuowen	“汾，水。出太原晉陽山，西南入河。从水，分聲。或曰出汾陽北山，冀州浸。”

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