fěng

recite

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

风 sound component

  Sound component

fēng

  

wind

Evolution

讽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讽 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
讽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
讽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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fěng

recite, incant; satirize; to satirize; to mock; to recite; Taiwan pr. [fèng]

Most common words with 讽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

讽刺

to satirize

嘲讽

to sneer at

讥讽

to satirize

冷嘲热讽

frigid irony and scorching satire (idiom); to mock and ridicule

to mock