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翻

fān

flip over

Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 番 represents the sound.

Components
番 sound component

番  Sound component

fān, pān

  

to take turns

羽 meaning component

羽  Meaning component

yǔ

  

feather

Evolution

翻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
翻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

翻  

fān

flip over, upset, capsize; to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross

翻 (飜) 

fān

variant of 翻[fān]

Most common words with 翻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

翻

to turn over

翻译

to translate

推翻

to overthrow

翻过

to turn over

翻身

to turn over (when lying)

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 33.1892% of movies

1189th most common character in movies

1027th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+7FFB

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“翻，飛也。从羽，番聲。或从飛。”


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