fàn commit crime

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 𢎘 represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
quǎn dog

is a component form of .

𢎘
𢎘 Sound component
hàn flower bud
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𢎘 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangbomʔ
Unicodebhiæ̌m

說文解字

《說文》:“犯,侵也。从犬,巳聲。”

Sources

Character origin
教育部異體字字典
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

chù, chǔ painful

A pained heart  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
xin, xīn heart
SoundMeaning component
chu clear

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsŋ̊ʰraʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang