繁 · fán
complicated, complex, difficult
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
complicated, complex, difficult
- Mandarin
- fán
- Cantonese
- faan4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 繁 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 번
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7E41
- Radical
- 糸 · 120
- Strokes
- 17 · Unihan
- Residual
- 11
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
17 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 繁
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 敏 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 敏聲
Line 11239 · ⿱敏糸 · 敏聲
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- bjon · 附袁 反切 · #471
- Middle Chinese
- ban · 薄官 反切 · #535
- Middle Chinese
- ba · 薄波 反切 · #743
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4003 · bjon = 山合三平元並 · ban = 山合一平桓並 · ba = 果合一平戈並
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- fán
- kCantonese
- faan4
- kDefinition
- complicated, complex, difficult
- kTotalStrokes
- 17
- kRSUnicode
- 120.11
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:3419
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- fán,pán,pó 53444.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- fán 0300.100 · pó 0884.130
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- fán 091.160 · pó 287.040
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- fán(129)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- fán粵faan4 pó粵po4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 附袁 薄官 薄波
- Kangxi positions
- 0937.010
- Guangyun positions
- 114.10 126.40 162.34
- GSR references
- 0265b
- Cangjie
- OKVIF
- Four-corner
- 8890.3