(hàn) - writing brush, letter (used in transliterations such as John) in Mandarin
hànTraditional: 翰
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Translation
writing brush, letter (used in transliterations such as John)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the feather radical 羽 recalls a quill or writing brush, while the left element supplies the sound; it originally meant a writing brush or letter.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 羽 (feather radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
翰
Examples
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John is my British friend.
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John is my friend.
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I work together with John.
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John is a common name.
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His name has the character han in it.
翰 (hàn) originally meant a writing brush or letter; today it appears mainly in the transliteration 约翰 (Yuēhàn), John.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 翰.
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