fán
to roast
To roast 火 meat on a spit 番; 番 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ar | bjon | fán | burn, roast |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4442nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+71D4 |
Shuowen | “燔,爇也。从火,番聲。” |
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