泛滥
fàn​làn HSK7

flood

泛 fàn to drift Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 乏 represents the sound. Simplified form of 氾.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

乏
乏 Sound component
fá lack

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartphjomHpʰ(r)[o]m-sto float
Zhengzhangpʰoms
bob
Unicodepiæ̀m

說文解字

浮也。从水乏聲。

Sources

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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

滥 làn flood Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 监 represents the sound. Simplified form of 濫.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

监
监 Sound component
jiān watch carefully

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

氾 fàn, fán overflow Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 𢎘 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

𢎘
𢎘 Sound component
hàn flower bud
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𢎘 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2)

范笵

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpʰoms
bom

說文解字

《說文》：“氾，濫也。从水，聲。”

Sources

Character origin
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Zhengzhang Shangfang
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Academia Sinica
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

濫 làn flood Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

監
監 Sound component
jiān watch carefully

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡ·raːms
ɡraːmʔ

說文解字

氾也。从水監聲。一曰濡上及下也。《詩》曰：“𧥑沸濫泉。”一曰清也。

Sources

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