Chinese words starting with “fan”
52 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable fan. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 8 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.
Initial f · final an · hear the four tones and see example characters →
- 1st tone 9
- 2nd tone 12
- 3rd tone 23
- 4th tone 8
Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.
Common words with this syllable
- 犯罪fàn zuìHSK 6
to commit a crime; crime; offense
- 反应fǎn yìngHSK 3
to react; to respond; reaction; response; reply; chemical reaction
- 范围fàn wéiHSK 3
range; scope; limit; extent
- 反对fǎn duìHSK 3
to oppose; to be against; to object to
- 反正fǎn zhèngHSK 3
anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side
- 饭店fàn diànHSK 1
restaurant; hotel
- 反复fǎn fùHSK 3
repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- 饭馆fàn guǎnHSK 2
restaurant
All 52 words
| # | Word | Pinyin | POS | Meaning | Study list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 反 | fǎn | v,b,d | contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system | |
| 2 | 翻 | fān | v | to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross | |
| 3 | 饭 | fàn | n | cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee | |
| 4 | 犯 | fàn | v,g | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 5 | 烦 | fán | v,a | to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy | |
| 6 | 反而 | fǎn ér | d | on the contrary; instead | |
| 7 | 反映 | fǎn yìng | v,vn | to mirror; to reflect; mirror image; reflection; (fig.) to report; to make known; to render | |
| 8 | 返回 | fǎn huí | v | to return to; to come (or go) back | |
| 9 | 翻译 | fān yì | to translate; to interpret; translator; interpreter; translation; interpretation | ||
| 10 | 烦恼 | fán nǎo | an,a | to be worried; to be distressed; worries | |
| 11 | 反抗 | fǎn kàng | v,vn | to resist; to rebel | |
| 12 | 反击 | fǎn jī | v,vn | to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack | |
| 13 | 凡 | fán | d | ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale | |
| 14 | 番 | fān | qv,g | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 15 | 犯规 | fàn guī | v,vn | to break the rules; an illegality; a foul | |
| 16 | 繁荣 | fán róng | an,a,v | prosperous; booming (economy) | |
| 17 | 反馈 | fǎn kuì | v,vn | to send back information; feedback | |
| 18 | 番茄 | fān qié | n | tomato | |
| 19 | 凡是 | fán shì | d,nz | each and every; every; all; any | |
| 20 | 繁殖 | fán zhí | v,vn | to breed; to reproduce; to propagate | |
| 21 | 帆 | fān | n | to gallop; Taiwan pr. [fán]; variant of 帆 | |
| 22 | 贩卖 | fàn mài | v,vn | to sell; to peddle; to traffic | |
| 23 | 反感 | fǎn gǎn | v,an | to be disgusted with; to dislike; bad reaction; antipathy | |
| 24 | 烦躁 | fán zào | a | jittery; twitchy; fidgety | |
| 25 | 反射 | fǎn shè | v,vn | to reflect; reflection (from a mirror etc); reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism) | |
| 26 | 反弹 | fǎn tán | v,vn | to bounce; to bounce back; to boomerang; to ricochet; rebound (of stock market etc); bounce; backlash; negative repercussions | |
| 27 | 反省 | fǎn xǐng | v,vn | to reflect upon oneself; to examine one's conscience; to question oneself; to search one's soul | |
| 28 | 繁忙 | fán máng | a,an | busy; bustling | |
| 29 | 反驳 | fǎn bó | v,vn | to retort; to refute | |
| 30 | 反响 | fǎn xiǎng | n | repercussions; reaction; echo | |
| 31 | 反过来 | fǎn guo lái | d | conversely; in reverse order; in an opposite direction | |
| 32 | 饭碗 | fàn wǎn | n | rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living | |
| 33 | 反思 | fǎn sī | v,vn | to think back over sth; to review; to revisit; to rethink; reflection; reassessment | |
| 34 | 范畴 | fàn chóu | n | category | |
| 35 | 帆船 | fān chuán | n | sailboat | |
| 36 | 反常 | fǎn cháng | a | unusual; abnormal | |
| 37 | 泛滥 | fàn làn | v,vn | to be in flood; to overflow (the banks); to inundate; to spread unchecked | |
| 38 | 反面 | fǎn miàn | n,b | reverse side; backside; the other side (of a problem etc); negative; bad | |
| 39 | 反倒 | fǎn dào | d | but on the contrary; but expectedly | |
| 40 | 繁华 | fán huá | a | flourishing; bustling | |
| 41 | 反动 | fǎn dòng | a | reaction; reactionary | |
| 42 | 反问 | fǎn wèn | v | to ask (a question) in reply; to answer a question with a question; rhetorical question | |
| 43 | 返还 | fǎn huán | v,vn | restitution; return of something to its original owner; remittance | |
| 44 | 繁重 | fán zhòng | a | heavy; burdensome; heavy-duty; arduous; onerous | |
| 45 | 反之 | fǎn zhī | c | on the other hand...; conversely... | |
| 46 | 翻天覆地 | fān tiān fù dì | l | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head | |
| 47 | 翻番 | fān fān | v | to double; to increase by a certain number of times | |
| 48 | 翻来覆去 | fān lái fù qù | v | to toss and turn (sleeplessly); again and again | |
| 49 | 反差 | fǎn chā | n | contrast; discrepancy | |
| 50 | 烦闷 | fán mèn | a | moody; gloomy |
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