Taxonomy of meanings for 藩:　　

  • 藩 fán (OC: ban MC: bʷiɐn) 附袁切 平 廣韻：【𧂇䒞葉如韭又音翻 】
    • PLANTS
      • nhedge; some kind of plant
  • 藩 fān (OC: pan MC: pʰʷiɐn) 孚袁切 平 廣韻：【 】
  • 藩 fān (OC: pan MC: pʷiɐn) 甫煩切 平 廣韻：【籬也亦藩屏也 】

    Additional information about 藩

    說文解字: 【藩】，屛也。从艸、潘聲。 【甫煩切】

      Criteria
    • BORDER AREA

      1. The most general word for the border area of a state is biān 邊, and this word refers to the general area up to the border.

      2. Jìng 境, when referring to an area, describes a smaller area immediately surrounding the borderline.

      3. Chuí 陲 refers to the large tract of land next to the state border.

      4. Jiāng 疆 refers to any border between territories or fields of any kind, marked or unmarked, and the word can also refer to border regions.

      5. Fān 藩 occasionally has a derived sense referring to a state border insofar as this border implies defensive arrangements, or perhaps also demarkation by plants, originally.

      6. Bǐ 鄙 is an ancient word referring to a sparsely inhabited border region, with its attendant cultural peculiarities. See VULGAR