Prefix meaning 'all', 'whole', or 'pan-', used in compounds such as 汎用 (はんよう, general-purpose) and 汎神論 (はんしんろん, pantheism).
このソフトは汎用性が高い。
This software has high versatility.
汎アジア主義は歴史的な概念だ。
Pan-Asianism is a historical concept.
generic; general-purpose; all-purpose
generalization
philanthropy; universal love
pandemic; widespread
generic term; collective name; lumping together under one name
Standard kanji form for the prefix meaning 'pan-'.
The Sino-Japanese prefix 汎 expresses breadth or general applicability, as in 汎用 and 汎神論. It derives from the corresponding Chinese morpheme.