The rivers were flooded by the heavy rain.
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泛
Traditional: 氾 · 汎
fàn
Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
fàn · faan3 (Jyutping)
- variant of 泛[fan4]
- (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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Character breakdown
泛
- Meaning
- to drift, float; careless, reckless
- Radical
- 氵
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- ⿰氵乏
- Cangjie
- EHIO
- Four-corner
- 3213.7
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Example sentences
The typhoon caused the river to flood.
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