fēn

scattered, numerous

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

分 sound component

  Sound component

fēnfèn

  

divide

Evolution

紛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
紛 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

fēn

in disorder, scattered, tangled; numerous; confused; disorderly

Most common words with 紛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

纷纷

one after another

纠纷

dispute

纷争

to dispute

numerous

缤纷

vast and various

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.7894% of movies

2409th most common character in movies

1181st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+7D1B

Shuowen

“紛,馬尾韜也。从糸,分聲。”


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