fán

plant similar to coco-grass 莎草[suō​cǎo] (classical)

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangban

說文解字

青薠,似莎者。从艸煩聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

𮐚 fán Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode