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泛

fàn

to drift

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 乏 represents the sound. Simplified form of 氾.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

乏 sound component

乏  Sound component

fá

  

lack

Evolution

泛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
泛 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
泛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

泛  

fàn

to drift, float; careless, reckless; to float; to be suffused with; general; extensive; non-specific; flood; pan- (prefix)

泛 (氾) 

fàn

variant of 泛[fàn]

Most common words with 泛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

广泛

extensive

泛

to float

泛滥

to be in flood

宽泛

wide-ranging

泛起

to appear

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰ(r)[o]m-s

phjomH

fàn

to float


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 4.3569% of movies

2508th most common character in movies

1327th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6CDB

Shuowen

“泛，浮也。从水，乏聲。”


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