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漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

帆: sail

JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

巾 carries the meaning · 凡 gives the sound

6 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 帆船はんせんsailing ship; sailing boat; sailing vessel
  • 帆走はんそうsailing
  • 順風満帆じゅんぷうまんぱんsmooth sailing

ほho · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 帆ほsail

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)巾 cloth (meaning) + 凡 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 帆 (rev. 93448013), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Cloth (巾) + mediocre/ordinary (凡). A large, functional piece of "cloth" (once considered a simple material) that is used to catch the wind and power a ship.”
From the 巾 cloth story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
巾

Also built on cloth (巾)

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凡

Also built on commonplace (凡)

帆 takes the 凡 family's reading, ハン (han).

Also read ハン

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
帆 sail · 巾
vs汎 pan- · 氵
帆 has 巾 where 汎 has 氵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fān, fán

Same form: 帆 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
帆 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
帆 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fān, fán most common readings

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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