煩
fán HSK4

bother, trouble

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approved by Peter Olson · Oct 9, 2021, 10:06 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 9, 2021, 10:06 PM

head note

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Depicts fire (火) in the head (頁), i.e. a headache.

Components

火
火 Iconic component
頁
頁 Iconic component

Depicts a head.


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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartbjon[b]a[n] troubled

說文解字

《說文》：“煩，熱頭痛也。从頁，从火。一曰焚省聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)