fàn

overflow

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 𢎘 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

𢎘 sound component

𢎘  Sound component

hàn

  

flower bud

Evolution

氾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
氾 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
氾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fàn

overflow, flood, inundate

() 

fàn

variant of [fàn]

Most common words with 氾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

广泛

extensive

to float

泛滥

to be in flood

宽泛

wide-ranging

泛起

to appear

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (2 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.3569% of movies

2508th most common character in movies

1327th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+6C3E

Shuowen

“氾,濫也。从水,聲。”


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