fǎn
return
To walk 辶 backwards 反; 反 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 返
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to return to | ||
to return (to) | ||
to return to | ||
round trip | ||
restitution |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.panʔ | pjonX | fǎn | return |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 12.8784% of movies
1780th most common character in movies
1430th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+8FD4 |
Shuowen | “返，還也。从辵，从反，反亦聲。《商書》曰：‘祖甲返。’，《春秋傳》返从彳。” |
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