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藩

fān

fence

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

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

潘 sound component

潘  Sound component

pān

  

surname

Evolution

藩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
藩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
藩 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
藩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
藩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

藩  

fān

fence; boundary; outlying border; hedge; screen; barrier; vassal state; Taiwan pr. [fán]

Most common words with 藩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

藩

fence

曾国藩

Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Qing dynasty politician and military man

藩镇

lit. fence town

藩篱

hedge

三藩市

San Francisco (California)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*par

pjon

fān

hedge, screen, fence


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2622nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+85E9

Shuowen

“藩，屏也。从艸，潘聲。”


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