蕃 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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fān, bō, fán

foreign things

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

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

番 Sound component

fān, pān

to take turns

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

蕃

fān

foreign things; variant of 番[fān]; foreign (non-Chinese)

蕃

bō

see 吐蕃[Tǔbō]

蕃

fán

luxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce; to proliferate

Most common words with 蕃

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	蕃茄	tomato
	蕃	luxuriant
	吐蕃	also pr. [Tǔfān]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*par	pjon	fān	hedge, screen, fence
*[b]ar	bjon	fán	luxuriant (growth)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3646th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Unicode	U+8543
Shuowen	“蕃，艸茂也。从艸，番聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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