fàn
overflow
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 𢎘 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 氾
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
extensive | ||
to float | ||
to be in flood | ||
wide-ranging | ||
to appear |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.3569% of movies
2508th most common character in movies
1327th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+6C3E |
Shuowen | “氾,濫也。从水,聲。” |
Sources
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