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fàn

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fàn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
fàn | fan4
English translation
Buddhist, Sanskrit

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About fàn

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

fàn

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Other proper nouns / 其他专名 Qítā zhuān míng

Learning hint

forest

Etymology of fàn

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

林凡

Semantic compound

Lín

Phonetic compound

fán

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Lín represents the meaning and fán represents the sound.

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Example sentences using fàn

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夏尔马先生 Xiānsheng 点上 xiāng 念起梵文 Fàn wén 咒语 zhòu yǔ

Mr Sharma lit incense and chanted Sanskrit mantras.

Words with fàn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
fàn abbr. for 梵教 Fàn jiào [Fàn​jiào] Brahmanism fàn
梵蒂冈 Fàn dì gāng Vatican City梵蒂岡
梵高 Fán Gāo Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch post-Impressionist painter梵高 Fán Gāo
梵文 Fàn wén Sanskrit梵文 Fàn wén
梵蒂冈城 Fàn dì gāng chéng Vatican City, capital of Holy See梵蒂岡城
梵刹 Fàn chà monastery梵剎

fàn Decomposition & Compounds

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