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fan-chieh

fan-chieh is the alternative form of fanqie.

Meaning of fanqie

Noun

fanqie (uncountable)

  1. (Chinese) In traditional Chinese lexicography, a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation.

Origin of fan-chieh

From Mandarin 反切 Wade–Giles romanization fan³-chʻieh⁴.

Questions about fan-chieh

What is fan-chieh the alternative form of?
Fan-chieh is the alternative form of fanqie.

Words near fan-chieh in the dictionary

  1. fan-assisted oven
  2. fan-assisted ovens
  3. fan-blast
  4. fan-blasts
  5. fan-ch'ieh
  6. fan-chieh
  7. fan-dance
  8. fan-dances
  9. fan-fic
  10. fan-ficcer
  11. fan-ficcers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fan-chieh (page history and authors); fanqie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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