Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

煩: anxiety, trouble

Also: worry, pain, ill, annoy, nuisance, irksome

JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

火 carries the meaning · 頁 is drawn in

13 strokes

Five readings, and the words that use each

ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 煩雑はんざつcomplex; intricate; complicated

ボンbon · on'yomi

  • 煩悩ぼんのう

わずらうwazurau · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 煩うわずらうto worry (about); to be concerned (about)

わずらわすwazurawasu · kun'yomi

  • 煩わしいわずらわしいtroublesome; annoying; complicated

うるさいurusai · kun'yomi

  • 煩いうるさいnoisy; loud

Also read うるさがる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Look at 火 and see the campfire! The central stroke is the main flame, and the side strokes are sparks dancing in the wind.”
More in the 火 fire story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
火

Also built on fire (火)

All 17
頁

Also built on head (頁)

All 24

Also read ハン

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26

Also read ボン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
煩 anxiety · 火
vs碩 large · 石
煩 has 火 where 碩 has 石.
In ChineseSimplified 烦 · traditional, as in Japanese · fán

Japan keeps the traditional form 煩; mainland China simplifies it to 烦.

Simplified
烦 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
煩 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fán most common reading

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

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