叛
pàn HSK7

rebel

Phonosemantic compound. 反 represents the meaning and 半 represents the sound.

Components

反
反 Meaning component
fǎn reverse
半
半 Sound component
bàn half

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbaːns

說文解字

半也。从半反聲。

Sources

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