Chinese Character Wiki
范

fàn

surname Fan

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 氾 represents the sound. Simplified form of 範.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

氾 sound component

氾  Sound component

fàn

  

overflow

Evolution

范 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
范 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
范 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
范 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

范 (範) 

fàn

pattern, model, rule, law; pattern; model; example

范  

Fàn

surname Fan

Most common words with 范
Freq.
Word
Meaning

范围

range

规范

norm

范

pattern

示范

to demonstrate

防范

wariness

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b](r)omʔ

bjomX

fàn

(surname)

*[m-pʰ](r)omʔ

bjomX

fàn

bee


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 27.9994% of movies

1257th most common character in movies

705th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

範

Unicode

U+8303

Shuowen

“范，艸也。从艸，氾聲。”


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