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潘

pān

Character

What 潘 means

1. archaicwater in which rice has been washed
2. Taiwankitchen waste; food scraps (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [phun])

Other readings

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

• Pānsurname Pan; Pan (Greek god)

Example sentences

• 你蔑视了目睹你罪行的仙女们，也蔑视了我を这位强大的潘神。
  You scorned both the Nymphs, who beheld your deeds, and me the mighty Pan.

Words starting with 潘

• 潘金莲Pān Jīn liánPan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei…
• 潘斯Pān sī(surname) Pence
• 潘通Pān tōngPantone color system
• 潘基文Pān Jī wénBan Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general 2007-2016
• 潘多拉Pān duō lāPandora
• 潘朵拉Pān duǒ lāPandora
• 潘趣酒pān qù jiǔ(loanword) punch (drink)
• 潘集区Pān jí QūPanji, a district of Huainan City 淮南市
• 潘塔纳尔Pān tǎ nà ěrPantanal (wetland area in Brazil)
• 潘太克斯Pān tài kè sīPentax (brand name)
• 潘多拉魔盒pān duō lā mó héa Pandora's box
• 潘岳Pān YuèPan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安
• 潘婷Pān tíngPantene (hair products brand)
• 潘安Pān Ānsee 潘岳
• 潘集Pān jísee 潘集区

Words containing 潘

• 彼得潘Bǐ dé PānPeter Pan, the novel character
• 斯捷潘Sī jié pānStepan or Stefan (name)
• 松潘县Sōng pān XiànSongpan, a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿坝藏族羌族自治州
• 德维尔潘Dé wéi ěr pān(Dominique) de Villepin (French name)
• 貌若潘安mào ruò Pān Ānto have the looks of a Pan An 潘安
• 贝尔莫潘Bèi ěr mò pānBelmopan, capital of Belize
• 圣潘克勒斯站Shèng pān kè lēi sī ZhànSaint Pancras (London railway station)
• 松潘Sōng pānsee 松潘县

Characters built on 番

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

• 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn
• 燔fánburn; to roast meat for sacrifice
• 蕃fánluxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce
• 蟠pánto coil
• 幡fānbanner
• 蹯fánpaws of animal

Characters that look like 潘

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

• 澄chéngclear; limpid; to clarify
• 燔fánburn; to roast meat for sacrifice
• 潢huángdye paper; lake; pond
• 缮shànto repair; to mend; to rewrite
• 潇xiāo(of water) deep and clear
• 漕cáoto transport (esp. grain) by water; (literary) watercourse; canal

Sounds the same

Read pān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 攀to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
• 眅show the whites of eyes
• 番surname Pan
• 扳variant of 攀