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帆

fān

HSK 6 Character

What 帆 means

1. sail
2. Taiwan pr. fán, except {帆布|fān bù} canvas

Other readings

帆 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• fānto gallop; Taiwan pr. fán; variant of {帆|fān}
• fānvariant of {帆|fān}

Example sentences

• 我参加帆船社。
  Wǒ cānjiā fānchuán shè.
  I belong to the sailing club.
• 我叁加帆船社。
  I belong to the sailing club.
• 我好久没坐帆船了。
  Wǒ hǎojiǔ méi zuò fānchuán le.
  I haven't been sailing for years.
• 汤姆正在教我怎么开帆船。
  Tāngmǔ zhèngzài jiāo wǒ zěnme kāi fānchuán.
  Tom is teaching me to how to sail.
• 汤姆正在教我怎幺开帆船。
  Tom is teaching me to how to sail.
• 我们路上一帆风顺，直到遇上暴风雪。
  Wǒmen lùshang yī fān fēng shùn, zhídào yùshàng bàofēngxuě.
  We made good time until we ran into a blizzard.

Words starting with 帆

• 帆船fān chuánsailboat
• 帆布fān bùcanvas; sailcloth
• 帆板fān bǎnsailboard; windsurfing
• 帆布鞋fān bù xiécanvas shoes
• 帆伞fān sǎnparasail; parasailing
• 帆背潜鸭fān bèi qián yā(bird species of China) canvasback (Aythya valisineria)

Words containing 帆

• 一帆风顺yī fān fēng shùnpropitious wind throughout the journey (idiom); plain sailing; to go smoothly
• 风帆fēng fānsail; sailing boat
• 扬帆yáng fānto set sail
• 力帆Lì fānLifan Group (auto manufacturer in Chongqing)
• 展帆zhǎn fānto unfurl (a sail)
• 征帆zhēng fānexpedition ship
• 满帆mǎn fānunder full sail; going as fast as possible
• 船帆chuán fānsail
• 转帆zhuǎn fānto tack (of sailing ship); to jibe; to go about
• 张春帆Zhāng Chūn fānZhang Chunfan (-1935), late Qing novelist, author of The Nine-tailed Turtle 九尾龟
• 船帆座Chuán fān zuòVela (constellation)
• 驾帆船jià fān chuánsailing
• 扬帆远航yáng fān yuǎn hángto set sail on a voyage to a distant place; (fig.) to undertake a great mission
• 旋筒风帆xuán tǒng fēng fānrotor sail
• 见风使帆jiàn fēng shǐ fānlit. see the wind and set your sails (idiom); fig. to act pragmatically…

Characters built on 凡

These share the phonetic component 凡 (fán), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 梵Fànabbr. for 梵教; abbr. for Sanskrit 梵语; abbr. for 梵蒂冈
• 钒fánvanadium (chemistry)
• 矾fánalum

Characters that look like 帆

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
• 坑kēngpit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive
• 吼hǒuto roar; to howl; to shriek
• 纨wán(literary) fine white silk; delicate silk fabric
• 佚yì(bound form) (of a book, author etc) lost (to the ages); (bound form) reclusive

Sounds the same

Read fān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 翻to turn over; to flip over; to overturn
• 番(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that…
• 藩fence; hedge; (literary) screen; barrier; vassal state
• 幡banner
• 籓big winnow basket
• 繙to translate
• 旛pennant
• 蕃variant of 番; foreign (non-Chinese)