fàn
commit crime
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 𢎘 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
fàn
commit crime, violate; criminal; to violate; to offend; to assault; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad)
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 69.0854% of movies
393rd most common character in movies
767th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+72AF |
Shuowen | “犯,侵也。从犬,巳聲。” |
Sources
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