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燔

fán

Character

What 燔 means

1. burn
2. to roast meat for sacrifice

Example sentences

• 燔柴祭天是一种古老的仪式。
  The Heavenly Timber Immolation is a kind of ancient ritual.

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
• 潘pān(archaic) water in which rice has been washed; (Taiwan) kitchen waste…
• 蕃fánluxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce
• 蟠pánto coil
• 幡fānbanner
• 蹯fánpaws of animal

Characters that look like 燔

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

• 播bō(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc)…
• 潘pān(archaic) water in which rice has been washed; (Taiwan) kitchen waste…
• 缮shànto repair; to mend; to rewrite
• 熵shāngentropy (character created in 1923)
• 缰jiāngbridle; reins; halter
• 幡fānbanner

Sounds the same

Read fán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烦to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble
• 繁complicated; many; in great numbers
• 凡ordinary; commonplace; mundane
• 樊(literary) fence
• 蕃luxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce
• 矾alum
• 钒vanadium (chemistry)
• 笲osier basket of brides
• 氾used in given names and as a surname
• 籵dm
• 璠(gem)
• 蹯paws of animal