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蕃

fán

Character

What 蕃 means

1. luxuriant
2. flourishing
3. to reproduce
4. to proliferate

Other readings

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

• bōsee {吐蕃|Tǔ bō}
• fānvariant of {番|fān}; foreign (non-Chinese)

Example sentences

• 我不喜欢蕃茄的味道。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan fānqié de wèidao.
  I don't like the taste of tomatoes.
• 把蕃茄沙拉放进冰箱里。
  Put the tomato salad in the refrigerator.
• 我阿姨在她的花园种蕃茄。
  Wǒ āyí zài tā de huāyuán zhǒng fānqié.
  My aunt grows tomatoes in her garden.
• 他在他的花园里种了蕃茄。
  Tā zài tā de huāyuán lǐ zhǒng le fānqié.
  He planted tomatoes in his garden.
• 严格来说，蕃茄不是蔬菜，是水果。
  Yángéláishuō, fānqié bù shì shūcài, shì shuǐguǒ.
  Strictly speaking, the tomato is not a vegetable. It's a fruit.
• 透过现今的生物科技，蕃薯烧酒已经变得十分容易入口了，因为那种难闻的蕃薯味道大部分已经被去除了。
  Tòuguò xiànjīn de shēngwùkējì, bō shǔ shāojiǔ yǐjīng biànde shífēn róngyì rùkǒu le, yīnwèi nàzhǒng nánwén de bō shǔ wèidao dàbùfen yǐjīng bèi qùchú le.
  It's very easy to drink potato shochu now that the potato-like smell has been reduced to a low level through use of the latest biotechnology.

Words starting with 蕃

• 蕃茄fān qiévariant of 番茄
• 蕃衍fán yǎnvariant of 繁衍
• 蕃庑fán wúvariant of 繁芜

Words containing 蕃

• 吐蕃Tǔ bōTubo or Tufan, old name for Tibet; the Tibetan Tubo dynasty 7th-11th century AD…
• 吐蕃王朝Tǔ bō Wáng cháoTibetan Tubo Dynasty 7th-11th century AD

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…
• 燔fánburn; to roast meat for sacrifice
• 蟠pánto coil
• 幡fānbanner
• 蹯fánpaws of animal

Characters that look like 蕃

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

• 赛sàito compete; competition; match
• 罂yīngearthen jar with small mouth
• 暮mùevening; sunset
• 摹mó(bound form) to imitate; to copy
• 篓lǒubasket
• 蔷qiángused in 蔷薇

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
• 矾alum
• 燔burn; to roast meat for sacrifice
• 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