pān
surname
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 番 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 潘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
surname Pan | ||
Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general from 2006 | ||
Pandora | ||
Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅 | ||
Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安[PānAn], famous handsome and elegant writer from the Western Jin dynasty |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.9313% of movies
2393rd most common character in movies
2070th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+6F58 |
Shuowen | “潘,淅米汁也。一曰水名,在河南滎陽。从水,番聲。” |
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