bǎn
hillside
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 反 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pa[n]ʔ | pjonX | bǎn | slope, bank |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.5927% of movies
3216th most common character in movies
3595th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+962A |
Shuowen | “阪，坡者曰阪。一曰澤障。一曰山脅也。从，反聲。” |
Sources
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