fán

a piece of precious jade

Evolution

璠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
璠 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Definitions

 

fán

a piece of precious jade; (gem)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+74A0

Shuowen

“璠,璵璠,魯之寶玉。从玉,番聲。孔子曰:美哉璵璠!遠而望之,奐若也;近而視之,瑟若也。一則理勝,二則孚勝。”


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