Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

繁: luxuriant, thick

Also: overgrown, frequency, complexity, trouble

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

糸 carries the meaning · 敏 is drawn in

16 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 繁栄はんえい
  • 頻繁ひんぱんfrequent; incessant
  • 繁殖はんしょくbreeding; propagation; reproduction
  • 繁盛はんじょう
  • 繁華街はんかがいbusiness district; shopping district
  • 繁忙はんぼうbusy; high-stress; hectic

Also read しげる, しげく, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)敏 (sound) + 糸 silk (meaning)

Source: Wiktionary, 繁 (rev. 93580763), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Twisting threads (糸) + nimble/busy (敏). Imagine many "threads" being twisted and woven together in a complex, energetic "dance"—the symbol of richness and prosperity.”
From the 糸 thread story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
糸

Also built on thread (糸)

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Also read ハン

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fán

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

Simplified
繁 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
繁 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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