fèng
male phoenix
Simplified form of 鳳. Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 凡 represents the sound. Originally a pictograph of a mythical Chinese bird, similar to a phoenix. Later the phonetic component 凡 was added.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 凤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Fenghuang county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[XiāngxīTǔjiāzúMiáozúzìzhìzhōu] | ||
phoenix | ||
anchovy | ||
Longfeng district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆[Dàqìng], Heilongjiang | ||
pineapple |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.5079% of movies
2392nd most common character in movies
1504th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+51E4 |
Sources
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