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风

fēng

wind

Simplified form of 風. Originally written the same as 鳳 (phoenix) because the two characters sounded the same. Later the bottom part of the character was abbreviated to distinguish the two characters.

Components
凡 sound component

凡  Sound component

fán

  

all

㐅 simplified component

㐅  Simplified component

wǔ

  

five

Shorthand for the 虫 component in the traditional character 風.

Evolution

风 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
风 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
风 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
风 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
风 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
风 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

风 (風) 

fēng

wind; air; manners, atmosphere; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhèn],絲|丝[sī]

Most common words with 风
Freq.
Word
Meaning

风

wind

风险

risk

风格

style

风景

scenery

风暴

storm

Component uses

Meaning component in 10 characters (0 verified)

飘 岚 飙 飓 飕 飒 飚 飑 飖 飐

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

疯 讽 枫 砜

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 70.4789% of movies

505th most common character in movies

348th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Traditional

風

Unicode

U+98CE


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