fān

pennant

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
巾 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

cloth

番 sound component

  Sound component

fānpān

  

to take turns

Evolution

幡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
幡 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
幡 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
幡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fān

pennant, banner, streamer, flag; banner

Most common words with 幡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

banner

幡然

suddenly and completely (realize, change one's strategy etc)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3437th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5E61

Shuowen

“幡,書兒拭觚布也。从巾,番聲。”


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