Chinese symbol for “ordinary”
凡
fán
ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ordinary is 凡 (fán), defined as: ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “ordinary”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 平常 | píng cháng | ordinary; common |
| 庶 | shù | (bound form) ordinary; numerous; (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with 嫡 (dí)) |
| 中常 | zhōng cháng | ordinary; average |
| 庸 | yōng | ordinary; to use |
| 普普通通 | pǔ pǔ tōng tōng | ordinary; mediocre |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 凡.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凡是 | fán shì | each and every; every; all; any |
| 平凡 | píng fán | commonplace; ordinary |
| 非凡 | fēi fán | out of the ordinary; unusually (good, talented etc) |
| 凡事 | fán shì | everything |
| 凡人 | fán rén | ordinary person; mortal |
| 不凡 | bù fán | extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ordinary”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.