fán
complicated
Phonosemantic compound. 糸 represents the meaning and 敏 represents the sound. Simplified form of 緐.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ar | bjon | fán | abundant, numerous |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 9.9792% of movies
2089th most common character in movies
1296th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+7E41 |
Shuowen | “,馬髦飾也。从糸,每聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘可以稱旌乎。’或从。,籀文弁。” |
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