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  *反* | 反* | *反
contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切 phonetic system
HSK 4
fan of a singer
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烦* | 烦* | *烦
to feel vexed / to bother / to trouble / superfluous and confusing / edgy
HSK 4
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  *犯* | 犯* | *犯
to violate / to offend / to assault / criminal / crime / to make a mistake / recurrence (of mistake or sth bad)
HSK 6
fan (ball sports) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *饭* | 饭* | *饭
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
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  *翻* | 翻* | *翻
to turn over / to flip over / to overturn / to rummage through / to translate / to decode / to double / to climb over or into / to cross
HSK 4
film enthusiast / movie fan / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
fan / CL:
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *迷* | 迷* | *迷
to bewilder / crazy about / fan / enthusiast / lost / confused
HSK 3
to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite / to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)
HSK 7-9
bladeless fan
bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles / fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")
HSK 7-9
table fan / desk fan
Fan Gongcheng (12th century), Southern Song author of 過庭錄|过庭录
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  *凡* | 凡* | *凡
ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale
HSK 7-9
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  *扇* | 扇* | *扇
to fan / to slap sb on the face
HSK 5
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  *扇* | 扇* | *扇
fan / sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth / classifier for doors, windows etc
HSK 5
fan / zealot
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  *帆* | 帆* | *帆
sail / Taiwan pr. [fan2], except 帆布 canvas
HSK 7-9
darlings / fans / followers / short form of 親愛的們|亲爱的们
(fig.) (coll.) to fleece a group of people repeatedly (esp. small investors, consumers or fans), treating them as an endlessly renewable resource to harvest for profit
electric fan / CL: , 臺|台
(slang) fan of Apple products
die-hard fan
people from the same workplace or profession; co-worker; colleague / (fandom) fan creator or enthusiast involved in derivative works (e.g. fan fiction, fan art)
HSK 7-9
(in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan, cooker etc) setting; mode
music fan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *畈* | 畈* | *畈
field / farm
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  *粉* | 粉* | *粉
powder / cosmetic face powder / food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour / to turn to powder / (dialect) to whitewash / white / pink / (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝) / to be a fan of
HSK 7-9
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  *梵* | 梵* | *梵
abbr. for 梵教 Brahmanism / abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语 or 梵文 / abbr. for 梵蒂岡|梵蒂冈, the Vatican
History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔 in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, 120 scrolls
to fan / to flap / to incite / to instigate (a strike etc)
fan / fanatic
to get more fans; to gain followers
fan fiction
lover (of art, sports etc); amateur; enthusiast; fan
football fan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泛* | 泛* | *泛
(bound form) general / non-specific / extensive / pan- / to flood / (literary) to float about / to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
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  *番* | 番* | *番
(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian / classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort / (classifier) a kind; a sort / (classifier) (used after the verb to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番 "to double")
HSK 6
Kong Shangren (1648-1718), Qing dramatist and poet, author of The Peach Blossom Fan 桃花扇
folding fan
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  *翻* | 翻* | *翻
variant of
HSK 4
to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹)
to lose fans
Harry Potter fan (slang)
furry (fan of anthropomorphic animal characters)
die-hard (fan etc)
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
connoisseur / appreciative person / fan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *范* | 范* | *范
pattern / model / example
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *范* | 范* | *范
surname Fan
(of an author, musician etc) to sign (books, records etc) purchased by fans
fan lobster (esp. species of the genera Ibacus or Parribacus, both belonging to the slipper lobster family)
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  *贩* | 贩* | *贩
to deal in / to buy and sell / to trade in / to retail / to peddle
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  *蕃* | 蕃* | *蕃
luxuriant / flourishing / to reproduce / to proliferate
exhaust fan
(neologism c. 2015) (coll.) to win (sb) over as a fan / to garner new fans
fan / ventilator
tower fan
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  *樊* | 樊* | *樊
surname Fan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樊* | 樊* | *樊
(literary) fence
(Internet slang) to go from being indifferent to being a big fan
vanadium
water-hen / gallinula
(idiom) to fan the flames / to incite people / to stir up trouble
fan community / fandom
to gain popularity beyond the original niche community or fan base; to go mainstream
circular fan
Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记
(slang) hardcore fan (abbr. for 鐵桿粉絲|铁杆粉丝)
a ceiling fan / a punka
(political party's) voter base / (musician's) fan base / (a business's) customer base / the funds necessary for a venture / foundation on which sth's existence depends / bedrock (in the figurative sense)
Fan Zhen (c. 450-c. 510), philosopher from Qi and Liang of the Southern dynasties, as atheist denying Buddhist teachings on karma and rebirth
palm-leaf fan
Fan Zhiyi (1969-), soccer player
baseball fan
(coll.) gesture by an idol aimed at delighting fans (e.g. winking or throwing signed items); to interact with fans in such a manner (loanword from Japanese "fansābisu" – literally, "fan service")
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幡* | 幡* | *幡
banner
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繙* | 繙* | *繙
to translate
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蘩* | 蘩* | *蘩
Artemisia stellariana
Fan County or Fanxian, a county in Puyang City 濮陽市|濮阳市, Henan
passionate fan (of a celebrity); stan
central figure / rightful owner / (slang) idol of a fan
support group (e.g. for an election candidate) / fan club
The Peach Blossom Fan, historical play about the last days of the Ming dynasty by Kong Shangren 孔尚任
(theater) personal prop (spectacles, fan etc)
electric fan
(neologism c. 2014) celebrity with a huge, devoted fan base / celebrity with a huge following on social media
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繁* | 繁* | *繁
complicated / many / in great numbers / abbr. for 繁體|繁体, traditional form of Chinese characters
On Yueyang Tower (1046), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹
fan of one particular member of a pop idol band who denigrates and defames the other members
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *燔* | 燔* | *燔
burn / to roast meat for sacrifice
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  *籓* | 籓* | *籓
big winnow basket
Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis)
"zombie fans", fake followers that can be bought to boost one's popularity on Weibo, Baidu etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蹯* | 蹯* | *蹯
paws of animal
Dakota Fanning, American actress
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钒* | 钒* | *钒
vanadium (chemistry)
electric fan

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