藩 — Chinese character
藩
fān
boundary, fence, outlying border
- Pinyin
- fān
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 艹 潘
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 潘
- Japanese
- 藩 as a kanji
Common words with 藩
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 藩篱 (藩籬) | fān lí | hedge; fence |
| 藩镇 (藩鎮) | fān zhèn | lit. fence town; buffer region (between enemies) |
| 藩属 (藩屬) | fān shǔ | vassal state |
| 藩国 (藩國) | fān guó | feudatory; vassal state |
| 三藩之乱 (三藩之亂) | sān fān zhī luàn | Three feudatories rebellion against Qing 1673-1681 during the reign of Kangxi |
| 废藩置县 (廢藩置縣) | fèi fān zhì xiàn | to abolish the feudal Han and introduce modern prefectures (refers to reorganization during Meiji Japan) |
| 羊触藩篱 (羊觸藩籬) | yáng chù fān lí | lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat; without any way out of a dilemma |
| 羝羊触藩 (羝羊觸藩) | dī yáng chù fān | lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat; without any way out of a dilemma |
| 藩库 (藩庫) | fān kù | government repository; state provincial warehouse (esp. during Qing dynasty) |
English words written with 藩
藩 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 3 · Zhuangzi 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.