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繁

fán

complicated

Phonosemantic compound. 糸 represents the meaning and 敏 represents the sound. Simplified form of 緐.

Components
糸 meaning component

糸  Meaning component

mì

  

silk

敏 sound component

敏  Sound component

mǐn

  

fast

Evolution

繁 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
繁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

繁  

fán

complicated, complex, difficult; complicated; many; in great numbers; abbr. for 繁體|繁体[fán​tǐ], traditional form of Chinese characters

繁 (緐) 

fán

old variant of 繁[fán]

Most common words with 繁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

频繁

often

繁荣

prosperous

繁殖

to breed

繁忙

busy

繁华

flourishing

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

蘩

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ar

bjon

fán

abundant, numerous


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 9.9792% of movies

2089th most common character in movies

1296th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+7E41

Shuowen

“，馬髦飾也。从糸，每聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘可以稱旌乎。’或从。，籀文弁。”


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