幡 — Chinese character
幡
fān
pennant, banner, streamer, flag
- Pinyin
- fān
- Radical
- 50 ⼱ (Turban)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 巾 番
- Formation
- pictophonetic — cloth; meaning component 巾; sound component 番
- Japanese
- 幡 as a kanji
Common words with 幡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 经幡 (經幡) | jīng fān | Tibetan prayer flag |
| 幡然 | fān rán | suddenly and completely (realize, change one's strategy etc) |
| 幡然改图 (幡然改圖) | fān rán gǎi tú | to change one's plan all of a sudden (idiom) |
| 招魂幡 | zhāo hún fān | flag to attract departed spirits |
| 扬幡招魂 (揚幡招魂) | yáng fān zhāo hún | (lit.) to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom); (fig.) to try to revive what is obsolete or dead |
幡 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.