Chinese Character Wiki

畔

pàn

boundary path dividing fields

A farm 田 divided in half 半; 半 also provides the pronunciation

Components
田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

半 sound,meaning component

半  Sound Meaning component

bàn

  

half

Evolution

畔 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
畔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畔 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
畔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

畔  

pàn

boundary path dividing fields; edge; side; boundary; bank (of a river etc); shore

Most common words with 畔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

畔

edge

河畔

riverside

湖畔

lakeside

江畔

riverbank

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-pʰˤan-s

banH

pàn

bank between fields


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2833rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7554

Shuowen

“畔，田界也。从田，半聲。”


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