(fàn) - to violate, to commit (an offence), criminal, offender in Mandarin
fànTraditional: 犯
Translation
to violate, to commit (an offence), criminal, offender
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with 犭 (the dog radical) as the meaning element and 㔾 as the phonetic, originally suggesting an animal intruding, hence to transgress or offend.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 犭 (dog radical) + 㔾 (phonetic)
Stroke order
犯
Examples
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He made a serious mistake.
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No one is allowed to break the law.
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This criminal has already been caught.
。
He admitted that he had committed a crime.
避。
We must avoid making the same mistake again.
犯 (fàn) means to violate or commit an offence, and as a noun a criminal or offender. The batch source listed the rare character 笵, which at this frequency is a corruption of the common 犯 (fàn); this page uses 犯.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 犯.
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