反
fǎnfānfàn HSK3

reverse

反 fǎn frequency
opposite noun
opposite; reverse; contrary; inside out or upside down

我们是同一枚硬币的正反面。

wǒ​men shì tóng​yī méi yìng​bì de zhèng fǎn miàn.

We are two sides of the same coin.

to oppose verb
to oppose; to be against; to combat
on the contrary adverbconjunction
instead; on the contrary; equivalent to 反而 fǎn'ér or 反倒 fǎn​dào
to return noun
to return; to come back; same as 返 fǎn
[anti-] affix
(bound form) anti-; counter-

我不是反艺术。

wǒ bù​shì fǎn yì​shù.

I am not anti-art.

to rebel nounverb
to rebel; to revolt; to betray
to infer
to infer; to learn by analogy, such as in the idiom 举一反三 jǔ​yī​fǎn​sān
[fanqie]
short for 反切 fǎn​qiè, a traditional system of Chinese phonetics
counterrevolutionaries
(bound form) counterrevolutionaries; reactionaries; abbreviation for 反革命 fǎn​gé​mìng
反 fān
to rehabilitate
to reverse a verdict; to rehabilitate; same as 平反 píng​fǎn
反 fàn
[fanfan]
(archaic) used in the compound 反反 fàn​fàn meaning majestic or cautious

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Frequency
Character
Written text
237th most common 937.4 per million
Movie subtitles
433rd most common 339.9 per million appears in 79% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
51.6 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
127.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+53CD

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