pàn

look, gaze

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

分 sound component

  Sound component

fēnfèn

  

divide

Evolution

盼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
盼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pàn

look, gaze; expect, hope for; to hope for; to long for; to expect

Most common words with 盼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to hope for

期盼

to anticipate

盼望

to hope for

企盼

to expect

盼头

hopes

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.7847% of movies

2261st most common character in movies

2174th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+76FC

Shuowen

“盼,《詩》曰:‘美目盼兮。’从目,分聲。”


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