扮bàn · ban
costume, disguise; to dress up. 7 strokes, radical 扌, first met in HSK 5.
How to write 扮
Strokes 1–3 write 扌, then strokes 4–7 write 分.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 扮 · the stroke-order rules
What 扮 is made of
扌 (shǒu, hand) and 分 (fēn, to divide).
扌 carries the meaning — hand — and 分 carries the sound.
Words that use 扮
| 扮演 | to play the role of, act as 在表演中装成另一个人物 青年民警在演习中扮演搜救队员。In the drill, the young police officer played the role of a search-and-rescue member. Lesson 387, 尽职尽责 · 温慰人寰与固本强基 · Warm Solace & Bedrock Fortitude |
| 打扮 | to dress up, put on makeup 指修饰容貌或衣着，使外表更好看 她盛装打扮出席这场庆典。She dressed up in her finest clothes to attend the celebration. Lesson 407, 谨言审行 · 通达明理与气象万千 · Sagacity & Natural Grandeur |
Characters that share the sound part 分
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 扌
All 105 of them, and what the radical means, on the 手 radical page.