犯
fànTraditional: 犯
Translation
to commit (a crime or error), to violate, criminal, offender
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with 犭(the dog radical) suggesting transgression and 㔾 (jié) serving as the phonetic element, originally meaning to attack or transgress.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 犭(quǎn, dog radical) + 㔾 (jié, phonetic)
Stroke order
犯
Examples
。
He made the same mistake again.
。
No one is allowed to break the law.
。
This criminal has already been caught.
。
Please do not make this kind of mistake again.
判。
He was sentenced to three years for committing a crime.
犯 (fàn) means to commit an offence or error, or to violate a rule, and as a noun a criminal or offender. It commonly appears in words such as 犯错 (make a mistake) and 犯罪 (commit a crime).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 犯.
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