番

Pan1
#1,450 most
frequent character
surname Pan

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

番 fān draws an animal paw with its pad, feeling in sand. It first meant an animal’s paw. The meaning grew to non-Han tribes and foreign, then 'in turn' was borrowed for its sound. Read pān, it is a surname, also borrowed for sound.

Drawn as: beast paw; paw pad

番 as a component in other characters

sound9 characters
翻播潘幡蕃蟠鄱皤蹯
picture1 character
燔

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