罕
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rare
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 网 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 罕
- Common rank
- #2,366
- Unicode
- U+7F55
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Formation & memory
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How 罕 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
An empty 干 fishing net ⺳; 干 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
rarely · Heisig RSH #2644
paper punch + clothesline
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 罕
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 达尔罕茂明安联合旗 | Darhan Muming'an united banner in Baotou 包頭|包头[Bao1 tou2], Inner Mongolia | |
| 新罕布什尔 | New Hampshire, US state | |
| 亚伯拉罕 | (name) Abraham; Abraham, Biblical patriarch regarded as the founder of monotheism | |
| 伊斯法罕 | Isfahan province and city in central Iran | |
| 撒马尔罕 | Samarkand, Uzbekistan | |
| 加拉罕 | Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 pu… | |
| 莫罕达斯 | Mohandas (name) | |
| 赛罕区 | Saihan, a district of Hohhot City 呼和浩特市[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 穆罕默德·欧玛 | (Tw) Mullah Muhammad Omar (1960–2013), Taliban leader, Supreme Leader of Afghanistan 1996–… | |
| 穆罕默德六世 | King Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963–) | |
| 人迹罕至 | lit. men's footprints are rare (idiom); fig. off the beaten track; lonely; deserted | |
| 罕有 | to rarely have; rare | |
| 默罕默德 | see 穆罕默德[Mu4 han3 mo4 de2] | |
| 罕见 | rare; rarely seen | |
| 纳罕 | bewildered; amazed | |
| 瓦罕走廊 | Wakhan Corridor, panhandle in the northeast of Afghanistan sharing a border with China at … | |
| 穆罕默德 | Muhammad (c. 570–632), central figure of Islam and prophet of God | |
| 赛罕 | see 賽罕區|赛罕区[Sai4 han3 Qu1] | |
| 堪达罕 | (dialect) moose (loanword via Manchu) | |
| 希罕 | variant of 稀罕[xi1 han5] |