fàn
cooked rice
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 反 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*bo[n]ʔ | bjonX | fàn | eat |
*bo[n]ʔ-s | bjonH | fàn | cooked rice or millet |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 58.9941% of movies
638th most common character in movies
935th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+98EF |
Shuowen | “飯,食也。从食,反聲。” |
Sources
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