凡
fán HSK6

all

凡 fán
every adjective
every, all, or whatever

凡事都要尽力而为。

fán shì dōu yào jìn​lì'ér​wéi.

You should do your best in everything you do.

ordinary idiom
commonplace, mundane, or of the material world as opposed to the supernatural

他只是个凡夫俗子。

tā zhǐ shì gè fán fū sú​zǐ.

He is just an ordinary man.

altogether adverb
in total or altogether

全书凡二十卷。

quán shū fán èr​shí juàn.

The entire book consists of twenty volumes.

gist verb
the gist, outline, or general principle of something

发凡起例是编纂书籍的第一步。

fā fán qǐ​lì shì biān​zuǎn shū​jí de dì​yī bù.

Defining the scope and setting the rules is the first step in compiling a book.

musical note adjective
a specific note in the traditional Chinese gongchepu musical scale

在工尺谱中，‘凡’音对应简谱中的‘4’。

zài gōng​chě​pǔ zhōng,‘fán’ yīn duì​yìng jiǎn​pǔ zhōng de‘4’.

In Gongche notation, the note 'Fan' corresponds to '4' in numbered musical notation.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,013th most common 157.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,538th most common 40.0 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.54 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
39.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+51E1

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)