氾

See also 泛

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 水 + phonetic 㔾

Han character

氾 (radical 85 水+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 水尸山 (ESU), four-corner 3711₂)

1. overflow, flood, inundate

References

• KangXi: page 603, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17101
• Dae Jaweon: page 997, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1549, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6C3E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

氾 (Yale faan3)

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Japanese

Kanji

氾 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. spread out
2. wide

Readings

• On: はん (han)
• Kun: ひろがる (hirogaru)

Compounds

• 氾濫 (hiragana はんらん, romaji hanran) flood, inundation

References

JIS: 4845 Kuten: 4037 Shift JIS: 94c3 EUC-JP: C8C5 Frequency: not ranked Nelson: 2483

New Nelson: 3033 Halpern: not listed Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: 2301 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3a2.3

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

氾 is included in a planned expansion of the general use Jōyō kanji by the Japanese government.

• The Japan Times (October 21, 2009). Get set for next year's overhaul of joyo kanji. Accessed February 23, 2010.

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Korean

Hanja

氾 (hangeul 범, revised beom, McCune-Reischauer pŏm, Yale pem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

氾 (pinyin fán (fan2), fàn (fan4), fěng (feng3), Wade-Giles fan², fan⁴, feng³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

氾 (phiếm)