fèng
male phoenix
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.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鳳
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 |
Component uses
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
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 | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9CF3 |
Shuowen | “鳳，神鳥也。天老曰：鳳之象也，鴻前麐後，蛇頸魚尾，鸛顙鴛思，龍文虎背，燕頷雞喙，五色備舉。出於東方君子之國，翺翔四海之外，過崐崘，飲砥柱，濯羽弱水，莫宿風穴，見則天下大安寧。从鳥，凡聲。，古文鳳，象形。鳳飛羣鳥從以萬數，故以為朋黨字。，亦古文鳳。” |
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