番(fān)

HSK 612 strokes
Readingsfānpān

surname Pan

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Character information

Pinyin
fān / pān
Meaning
surname Pan
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 6
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 番 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿱⿱？米田

Sowing seeds 米 on the farm 田

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

米mǐ田tián

Parts are arranged top to bottom.

How to write 番 step by step

12 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 番

Common words using 番 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

fān番qié茄
HSK 6

tomato

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sān三fān番wǔ五cì次
HSK 7-9

over and over again (idiom)

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fān翻fān番
HSK 7-9

to double

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gèng更fān番

alternately; by turns

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shēng生fān番

barbarian; aboriginal savage

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fān番dāo刀

type of machete used by Taiwan aborigines, worn at the waist in an open-sid…

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sān三fān番liǎng两cì次

repeatedly (idiom)

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tǔ吐lǔ鲁fān番

see 吐鲁番市

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Related characters

More HSK 6 characters

丧串乌乳予井亡仓

From 番’s common words

茄三五次翻更生刀

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