fǎn
component #12,870

Meanings

  1. 1 to return (to)

Examples

Fǎnhuí
to return; to go back
Wǎngfǎn
round trip; back and forth

Tips

usage
movement + opposite — moving in the opposite direction, i.e. going back

Components

radical
chuò
motion; walk (radical form of 辵)
Walking radical wrapping the bottom-left, the simplified three-stroke form of (a foot stepping along a path). The indexing radical, planting firmly in the motion family alongside to advance, 退 to retreat, to return, to chase, to flee. Any character with is some kind of going-and-coming.
phonetic
fǎn
reverse; turn over
Inside supplies the sound exactly: fǎn → fǎn, identical pinyin and tone. also pulls strong semantic weight — it depicts a hand turning something over ( cliff + hand), giving the meaning 'reverse, flip back.' is the motion-version of that flip: to turn back, return on one's path. Pure phonetic-plus-meaning overlap, an unusually transparent pairing.

Stroke Order

fǎn