Chinese Character 翻 Meanings and components.

Form

翻

Meaning

翻 meaning[3] in English

To Turn Over.

To Flip Over.

To Overturn.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 翻 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Pan (番) , and feather (羽)

Its radical[1] is: 羽 (yu3) which means: Feather, 5th Note In Pentatonic Scale, .羽yu3feather

In cangjie it is written with HWSMM

How to write 翻

To write翻fan1to turn … you should write a combination of 番fan1surname Pan , 羽yu3feather arranged in a 吅 shape:

番 + 羽 = 翻

翻 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 翻 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 翻, looks as follow:

翻
Pinyin:fan1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Turn Over . To Flip Over . To Overturn . To Rummage Through . To Translate . To Decode . To Double . To Climb Over Or Into . To Cross
番
Pinyin:fan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Pan
釆
Pinyin:bian4
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 辨[Bian4]
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
米
Pinyin:mi3
Meaning[3]: Surname Mi
木
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu
丷
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: 'Eight' Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 八[Ba1]
田
Pinyin:tian2
Meaning[3]: Surname Tian
羽
Pinyin:yu3
Meaning[3]: Feather . 5th Note In Pentatonic Scale
习
Pinyin:xi2 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Surname Xi
习
Pinyin:xi2 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Surname Xi

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

  • Wiktionary Page for 翻in English or Chinese