漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
畔: paddy ridge, levee
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
田 carries the meaning · 半 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 湖畔こはん
- 河畔かはんriverside
- 池畔ちはんnear the pond; edge of a pond
Also read あぜ, くろ, ほとり, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The lifeblood of the village! Imagine a patchwork of green rice fields stretching across a fertile valley.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side畔 paddy ridge · 半
vs卑 lowly · 丿 + 十In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pàn
Same form: 畔 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 畔 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 畔 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin pàn 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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