fàn
pattern, model
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 𨊠 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b](r)omʔ | bjomX | fàn | casting mold |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 27.9994% of movies
1257th most common character in movies
705th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7BC4 |
Shuowen | “範,範軷也。从車,笵省聲。讀與犯同。” |
Sources
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