fèn
strive, exert effort
Depicts a bird (隹) lifting off in a field (田), starting to fly.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 奮
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
excited | ||
to strive | ||
hardworking | ||
to strive | ||
to stir oneself up |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*(Cə.)pə[r]-s (W dialect) | pjunH | fèn | spread wings and fly |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 34.6468% of movies
1124th most common character in movies
1268th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+596E |
Shuowen | “奮，翬也。从在田上。《詩》曰：‘不能奮飛。’” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.291
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