范

範
fàn
noun #6,863

Meanings

  1. 1 pattern; model; example
  2. 2 scope; range; limit
  3. 3 surname Fan

Examples

HSK 4
Tā shì wǒmen de mófàn.
He is our role model.
HSK 5
Zhè chāochū le wǒ de fànwéi.
This is beyond my scope.
HSK 6
Shìfàn yíxià zěnme zuò.
Demonstrate how to do it.

Tips

usage
范 is used in compounds: 范围 (scope/range), 模范 (model/exemplary), 示范 (demonstrate), 规范 (standard/norm). Also a common surname.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant (top radical)
Grass radical on top (Kangxi #140 in its 3-stroke compressed form) - also 范's indexing radical. The traditional form 範 used the bamboo radical 竹 and a 車 cart; in the 1956 simplification both were absorbed under the 艹 cap. The grass meaning is no longer transparent - 范 is mostly a surname or 'model, pattern' (典范).
phonetic
氾 fàn
overflow; phonetic shape
Bottom 氾 (fàn, overflow) supplies the sound directly with no shift. The 氵 + 㔾 inside is itself a phono-semantic for flooding water; here it loses its watery sense and contributes only the reading. Same phonetic in 范 (fàn) as a borrowed surname graph.

Stroke Order

范 fàn