凡
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ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 几 +1
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 凡
- Common rank
- #1,503
- Unicode
- U+51E1
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
ordinary · Heisig RSH #62
a drop of + wind
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 凡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凡尔赛文学 | (slang) social media post whose purpose is to humblebrag | |
| 自命不凡 | to think too much of oneself; self-important; arrogant | |
| 斯特凡诺普洛斯 | Stephanopoulos (e.g. former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos) | |
| 不平凡 | marvelous; marvelously | |
| 凡得瓦力 | (molecular physics) van der Waals force | |
| 凡立水 | (loanword) varnish | |
| 阿凡达 | Avatar (movie) | |
| 凡士通 | Firestone (Tire and Rubber Company) | |
| 凡士林 | (loanword) vaseline | |
| 不知凡几 | one can't tell how many; numerous similar cases | |
| 阿凡提 | the Effendi (Nasreddin), the hero of folk tales of the Muslim world, known for his wisdom … | |
| 凡赛斯 | Versace (fashion brand) (Tw) | |
| 凡尔赛 | Versailles (near Paris); (slang) to humblebrag; ostensibly modest, but in fact boastful | |
| 凡尔丁 | a type of plain-woven woolen fabric that is thin, stiff and smooth | |
| 不同凡响 | lit. not a common chord (idiom); outstanding; brilliant; out of the common run | |
| 凡尔赛宫 | the Palace of Versailles, France | |
| 凡夫俗子 | common people; ordinary folk | |
| 非同凡响 | out of the ordinary | |
| 不凡 | extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional | |
| 大凡 | generally; in general |
Sound family
These characters use 凡 as their sound component — compare how they read.