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煩

fán

bother, trouble

Depicts fire (火) in the head (頁), i.e. a headache.

Components
火 iconic component

火  Iconic component

huǒ

  

fire

頁 iconic component

頁  Iconic component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head.

Evolution

煩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
煩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
煩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

烦 (煩) 

fán

bother, vex, trouble; troublesome; to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy

Most common words with 煩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

麻烦

inconvenient

烦

to bother

烦恼

to be worried

烦躁

jittery

烦人

to annoy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]a[n]

bjon

fán

troubled


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 74.2271% of movies

534th most common character in movies

1253rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

烦

Unicode

U+7169

Shuowen

“煩，熱頭痛也。从頁，从火。一曰焚省聲。”


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