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Mythic Mandarin

犯 (fàn): meaning and stroke order

犯 (fàn) means to violate, to offend, to assault, criminal, crime, to make a mistake.

犯

Simplified
犯
Traditional
犯 (same form)
Pinyin
fàn

Stroke order of 犯

犯

  • fàn to violate; to offend
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 犯

  1. fàn
    • to violate
    • to offend
    • to assault
    • criminal
    • crime
    • to make a mistake
    • recurrence (of mistake or sth bad)

Radical and structure

犯
Radical 犬 (Kangxi radical 94) · 5 strokes · 犭 on the left, 㔾 on the right

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 犯

犯 in our stories

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  • 洪水没有冲垮寺庙，却淹了附近许多百姓的家。白素贞为此犯下了大错，身子也越来越虚弱。

    hóngshuǐ méiyǒu chōngkuǎ sìmiào què yān le fùjìn xǔduō bǎixìng de jiā Bái Sùzhēn wèicǐ fàn xià le dà cuò shēnzi yě yuèláiyuè xūruò

    The flood didn't bring down the temple, but it drowned the homes of many people nearby. Bai Suzhen had committed a grave wrong, and she grew weaker and weaker.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 犯

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).