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ㄈㄢ

fān

foreign

番 is a 12 stroke, simplified and traditional Chinese character and is pronounced as fān in the first tone, however it can also be pronounced as pān.

It is made up of the components (divide) and (field).

  • ㄈㄢ

    fān

    foreign

    • ㄅㄧㄢ ˋ

      biàn

      divide

    • ㄊㄧㄢ ˊ

      tián

      field

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We divide the foreigners up and put them in different fields.
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Pronunciation

We found 2 pronunciations for 番

fān
pān

Definitions for 番 pronounced as fān

  • foreign (non-Chinese)
  • barbarian
  • classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance)
  • classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc)
  • classifier for situations: kind, sort

Definitions for 番 pronounced as pān

  • surname Pan

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