fàn

a bamboo form

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

氾 sound component

  Sound component

fàn

  

overflow

Evolution

笵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
笵 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
笵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fàn

a bamboo form; a model; bamboo mold

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7B35

Shuowen

“笵,法也。从竹,竹,簡書也;氾聲。古法有竹刑。”


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