藩
fān

fence

藩 fān
barrier noun
a literary screen or protective barrier

这座山脉是阻挡外敌的天然藩屏。

zhè zuò shān​mài shì zǔ​dǎng wài​dí de tiān​rán fān píng.

This mountain range is a natural barrier against external enemies.

fence punctuation
a physical fence or hedge

古人用竹子扎成藩，用来围挡自家的禽畜。

gǔ​rén yòng zhú​zi zā chéng fān, yòng​lái wéi​dǎng zì​jiā de qín​chù.

Ancient people used bamboo to make fences to enclose their livestock.

vassal state noun
a vassal state or a frontier province

这里的领主被封为藩王。

zhè​lǐ de lǐng​zhǔ bèi fēng​wéi fān wáng.

The local lord was enfeoffed as a vassal king.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,622nd most common 16.2 per million
Movie subtitles
3,490th most common 1.49 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.76 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.47 per million

Details
Strokes
18
Unicode
U+85E9

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