fānfán

foreign things

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

番 sound component

  Sound component

fānpān

  

to take turns

Evolution

蕃 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
蕃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fān

foreign things; variant of [fān]; foreign (non-Chinese)

 

see 吐蕃[Tǔ​bō]

 

fán

luxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce; to proliferate

Most common words with 蕃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蕃茄

tomato

luxuriant

吐蕃

also pr. [Tǔ​fān]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*par

pjon

fān

hedge, screen, fence

*[b]ar

bjon

fán

luxuriant (growth)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3646th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8543

Shuowen

“蕃,艸茂也。从艸,番聲。”


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