pàn
boundary path dividing fields
A farm 田 divided in half 半; 半 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-pʰˤan-s | banH | pàn | bank between fields |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2833rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+7554 |
Shuowen | “畔,田界也。从田,半聲。” |
Sources
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