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Mythic Mandarin

凡 (fán): meaning and stroke order

凡 (fán) means ordinary, commonplace, mundane, temporal.

凡

Simplified
凡
Traditional
凡, 凢
Pinyin
fán

Stroke order of 凡

凡

  • fán ordinary; commonplace
  • fán variant of 凡[fan2]
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 凢

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 凡

  1. fán
    • ordinary
    • commonplace
    • mundane
    • temporal
    • of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels)
    • every
    • all
    • whatever
    • altogether
    • gist
    • outline
    • note of Chinese musical scale
  2. fán Traditional 凢
    • variant of 凡[fan2]

Radical and structure

凡
Radical 几 (Kangxi radical 16) · 3 strokes · built from 几 and 丶

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 凡

凡 in our stories

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  • 他想起李白的诗：黄河三尺鲤，本在孟津居；点额不成龙，归来伴凡鱼。连李白这样的人，也把自己比作一条没有跳过龙门的鱼。

    tā xiǎngqǐ Lǐ Bái de shī Huáng Hé sān chǐ lǐ běn zài Mèngjīn jū diǎn é bù chéng lóng guīlái bàn fán yú lián Lǐ Bái zhèyàng de rén yě bǎ zìjǐ bǐzuò yì tiáo méiyǒu tiào guò Lóngmén de yú

    He recalled lines by Li Bai: "A three-foot carp of the Yellow River once lived at Mengjin; its forehead marked, it did not become a dragon, and came home to swim with common fish." Even a man like Li Bai had compared himself to a carp that failed to leap the gate.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 凡

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).