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pán

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pán Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
pán | pan2
English translation
to occupy; to coil; curled up, coiled

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About pán

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Number of strokes

18

Traditional form

pán

Contains the radical

chóng

Part of speech

Verb-like morpheme / 动词性语素 Dòngcí xìng yǔsù

Learning hint

insect

Etymology of pán

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

虫番

Semantic compound

chóng

Phonetic compound

Pān

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. chóng represents the meaning and Pān represents the sound.

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Words with pán

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
pán to coil pán
蟠桃 pán táo flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach)蟠桃 pán táo
蟠龙 pán lóng coiled dragon蟠龍
蟠踞 pán jù to occupy illegally蟠踞 pán jù
虎踞龙蟠 hǔ jù lóng pán lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain虎踞龍蟠
蟠曲 pán qū coiled蟠曲 pán qū

pán Decomposition & Compounds

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