漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
販: marketing, sell
Also: trade
JLPT N211 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 反 gives the sound
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 販路はんろmarket, outlet
- 自動販売機じどうはんばいきvending machine
- 販売するはんばいするsell, market
- 市販するしはんするput on the market, market
- 再販するさいはんするresell
- 販売はんばい
- 市販しはん
- 自販じはんautomatic selling
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)貝 cowry (meaning) + 反 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 販 (rev. 93616577), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Shell/money (貝) + reverse/return (反). Originally related to the "return" and exchange of "shells" in the marketplace—the essence of modern marketing.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
反
Also built on anti- (反)
販 takes the 反 family's reading, ハン (han).
In ChineseSimplified 贩 · traditional, as in Japanese · fàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 販; mainland China simplifies it to 贩.
- Simplified
- 贩 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 販 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fàn 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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