芬
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perfume; fragrance
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 芬
- Common rank
- #1,728
- Unicode
- U+82AC
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
essence · Heisig RSH #1944
flower + 分 part
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 芬
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斯芬克斯 | sphinx (myth.) (loanword) | |
| 阿里斯托芬 | Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright | |
| 格兰芬多 | Gryffindor (Harry Potter) | |
| 斯芬克司 | Sphinx (Egyptian mythical beast) | |
| 哈克贝利·芬历险记 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温[Ma3 ke4 · Tu3 wen1] | |
| 南芬区 | Nanfen, a district of Benxi City 本溪市[Ben3 xi1 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 安多芬 | endorphin (loanword) | |
| 纽芬兰与拉布拉多 | Newfoundland and Labrador, province of Canada | |
| 达芬西 | see 達·芬奇|达·芬奇[Da2 · Fen1 qi2] | |
| 芬兰语 | Finnish (language); suomen kieli | |
| 芬多精 | phytoncide (biochemistry) | |
| 达·芬奇 | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter | |
| 芬太尼 | (loanword) fentanyl | |
| 里希特霍芬 | Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major … | |
| 新芬党 | Sinn Fein, Irish political party | |
| 贝多芬 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer | |
| 布洛芬 | ibuprofen | |
| 马芬 | muffin (loanword); also written 瑪芬|玛芬[ma3 fen1] | |
| 多芬 | Dove (brand) | |
| 南芬 | see 南芬區|南芬区[Nan2 fen1 Qu1] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 分 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分 sound part | to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity | |
| 粉 | powder, flour, cosmetic powder; plaster | |
| 盆 | basin, bowl, pot, tub | |
| 纷 | tangled, scattered; numerous, confused | |
| 扮 | costume, disguise; to dress up | |
| 盼 | to look, to gaze; to expect, to hope for | |
| 酚 | carbolic acid; phenol | |
| 汾 | a river in Shanxi province | |
| 忿 | anger, fury; exasperation | |
| 吩 | to order, to command; to instruct | |
| 氛 | air; atmosphere | |
| 玢 | (archaic) a kind of jade, porphyrite | |
| 棻 | sandalwood | |
| 棼 | rafters; disordered, confused | |
| 邠 | a county in Shaanxi province | |
| 鼢 | a variety of mole | |
| 坌 | dust; earth; river bank; to dig; to unite |