pán
coil
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 番 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 蟠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to coil | ||
flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach) | ||
coiled dragon | ||
to occupy illegally | ||
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤar | ba | pán | curl (v.) |
*[b]ˤar | ban | pán | curl (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4274th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+87E0 |
Shuowen | “蟠，鼠婦也。从虫，番聲。” |
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