fàn
surname Fan
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 氾 represents the sound. Simplified form of 範.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 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 | (surname) |
*[m-pʰ](r)omʔ | bjomX | fàn | bee |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 27.9994% of movies
1257th most common character in movies
705th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8303 |
Shuowen | “范,艸也。从艸,氾聲。” |
Sources
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