Chinese Character Wiki

绊

bàn

loop

Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 半 represents the sound. Simplified form of 絆.

Components
纟 meaning component

纟  Meaning component

mì, sī

  

silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

半 sound component

半  Sound component

bàn

  

half

Evolution

绊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
绊 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
绊 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

绊 (絆) 

bàn

loop, catch; fetter, shackle; to trip; to stumble; to hinder

Most common words with 绊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绊倒

to trip

绊

to trip

羁绊

trammels

绊脚石

obstacle

牵绊

to bind

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.7093% of movies

2564th most common character in movies

3183rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

絆

Unicode

U+7ECA


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