bàn

dress up

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

分 sound component

  Sound component

fēnfèn

  

divide

Evolution

扮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bàn

dress up; dress up as; to disguise oneself as; to dress up; to play (a role); to put on (an expression)

Most common words with 扮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扮演

to act

打扮

to decorate

to dress up

装扮

to decorate

假扮

to impersonate