bǎn

hillside

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

反 sound component

  Sound component

fǎn

  

reverse

Evolution

阪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

bǎn

hillside farmland; slope

 

bǎn

hillside

Most common words with 阪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

大阪

Ōsaka, a city and prefecture in Japan

slope

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pa[n]ʔ

pjonX

bǎn

slope, bank


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.5927% of movies

3216th most common character in movies

3595th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Simplified

Unicode

U+962A

Shuowen

“阪,坡者曰阪。一曰澤障。一曰山脅也。从,反聲。”


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