翻 — Chinese character
翻
fān
to upset, to capsize, to flip over
- Pinyin
- fān
- Radical
- 124 ⽻ (Feather)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 番 羽
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wings; meaning component 羽; sound component 番
- Japanese
- 翻 as a kanji
Common words with 翻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 翻译 (翻譯) | fān yì | to translate; to interpret |
| 推翻 | tuī fān | to overthrow |
| 翻身 | fān shēn | to turn over (when lying); (fig.) to free oneself |
| 翻唱 | fān chàng | to cover (a previously recorded song); cover version (of a song) |
| 翻转 (翻轉) | fān zhuǎn | to roll; to turn over |
| 翻新 | fān xīn | to revamp; a face-lift |
| 翻开 (翻開) | fān kāi | to open up |
| 翻墙 (翻牆) | fān qiáng | lit. to climb over the wall; fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China |
| 翻修 | fān xiū | to rebuild (house or road); to overhaul |
| 翻阅 (翻閱) | fān yuè | to thumb through; to flip through (a book) |
| 翻过 (翻過) | fān guò | to turn over; to transform |
| 翻倍 | fān bèi | to double |
English words written with 翻
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.