扮
bàn HSK5

dress up

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 分 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

分
分 Sound component
fēn, fèn, fen divide

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangprɯːns
hmroːlʔ
pɯn
pɯnʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“扮，握也。从手，分聲。讀若粉。”

Sources

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