漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
翻: flip, turn over
Also: wave, flutter, change (mind)
JLPT N118 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
羽 carries the meaning · 番 gives the sound
18 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
ホンhon · on'yomi · in compounds
- 翻訳ほんやくtranslation
- 翻意ほんいchanging one's mind
- 翻案ほんあんadaptation (of a novel, play, etc.)
- 翻弄ほんろうhaving at one's mercy; trifling with
ひるがえるhirugaeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 翻るひるがえるto flutter (in the wind); to wave; to flap
ひるがえすhirugaesu · kun'yomi
- 翻すひるがえすto turn over
Also read ハン, 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
“Spread your wings and fly! This radical represents the lightness of birds, the incredible speed of flight, and the delicate beauty of a single feather.”
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翻 flip · 番 + 羽
vs藩 clan · 艹 + 潘In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 飜 · fān
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 翻. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 飜.
- Simplified
- 翻 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 飜 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fān 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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