泛 — Chinese character
泛
fàn
to drift, to float; broad, vast; careless, reckless
- Pinyin
- fàn
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 氵 乏
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 乏
- Japanese
- 泛 as a kanji
Common words with 泛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 广泛 (廣泛) | guǎng fàn | wide; broad; extensive; widespread |
| 泛滥 (氾濫) | fàn làn | to overflow; to inundate; to flood; (fig.) to proliferate unchecked |
| 泛滥 (泛濫) | fàn làn | variant of 泛滥 (fàn làn) |
| 泛指 | fàn zhǐ | to make a general reference; to be used in a general sense |
| 宽泛 (寬泛) | kuān fàn | wide-ranging |
| 泛舟 | fàn zhōu | to go boating |
| 泛滥成灾 (泛濫成災) | fàn làn chéng zāi | lit. to flood (idiom); fig. rampant |
| 空泛 | kōng fàn | vague and general; not specific |
| 泛起 | fàn qǐ | to appear; to emerge |
| 泛称 (泛稱) | fàn chēng | to refer broadly to; general term |
| 泛神论 (泛神論) | fàn shén lùn | pantheism, theological theory equating God with the Universe |
| 泛音 | fàn yīn | (music) an overtone; a harmonic |
English words written with 泛
泛 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
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