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邯

hán

city in Hebei province

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 甘 represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

甘 sound component

甘  Sound component

gān

  

sweetness

Evolution

邯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

邯  

hán

city in Hebei province; various; name of a district in Hebei

Most common words with 邯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

邯郸学步

to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom)

邯郸

also Handan county

邯郸市

Handan prefecture-level city in Hebei

邯

name of a district in Hebei

邯郸县

Handan county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸[Hán​dān], Hebei

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤam

ham

hán

邯鄲 han.tan (placename)

*[g]ˤa[n]

han

hán

邯鄲 han.tan (placename)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3900th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+90AF

Shuowen

“邯，趙邯鄲縣。从邑，甘聲。”


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