bān
confer
To pass out 分 a booklet 頁; 分 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 頒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to confer an award | ||
to issue | ||
to issue | ||
to issue | ||
issue for enforcement |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤ<r>ə[n] (MC F!) | paen | bān | distribute |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.5811% of movies
2353rd most common character in movies
2319th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9812 |
Shuowen | “頒,大頭也。从頁,分聲。一曰鬢也。《詩》曰:有頒其首。’” |
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