范

See also 範

Translingual

Wikipedia

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 氾

Han character

范 (radical 140 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿水尸山 (TESU), four-corner 4411₂)

1. used as a surname
2. bee-like insect
3. (substitute for 範 in simplified Chinese) model, example, law, type

References

• KangXi: page 1026, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30834
• Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3196, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8303

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Cantonese

Hanzi

范 (traditional 范, Yale faan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

范

Readings

• On: はん (han), ほん (hon)
• Kun: はち (hachi), いがた (igata), のり (nori)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

范 (traditional 範, pinyin fàn (fan4), Wade-Giles fan⁴) 范 (traditional 范, pinyin fàn (fan4), Wade-Giles fan⁴)

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Vietnamese

范 (phạm (chỉ Họ) )