棼
fén

beams in the roof of a house confused

Components

林
林 Meaning component
lín forest

forest

分
分 Sound component
fēn, fèn, fen divide

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbɯn

說文解字

複屋棟也。从林分聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)