Forewarned is forearmed.
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凡
Traditional: 凢
fán
HSK 3.0 · 7–9
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fán · faan4 (Jyutping)
- 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
- variant of 凡[fan2]
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
Every dog has his day.
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