棼 — Chinese character
棼
fén
rafters; disordered, confused
- Pinyin
- fén
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 林 分
- Formation
- pictophonetic — forest; meaning component 林; sound component 分
Common words with 棼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 治丝益棼 (治絲益棼) | zhì sī yì fén | lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom); fig. to try to help but end up making things worse |
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.