pán

large rock

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

般 sound component

  Sound component

bānpán

  

sort

Evolution

磐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
磐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
磐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pán

large rock, boulder; firm; stable; rock

Most common words with 磐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

firm

磐石

Panshi county level city in Jilin prefecture 吉林, Jilin province

坚如磐石

rock-firm and unyielding

磐安

Pan'an county in Jinhua 金華|金华[Jīn​huá], Zhejiang

磐石市

Panshi county level city in Jilin prefecture 吉林, Jilin province

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3640th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+78D0


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