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凤

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
又 simplified component

又  Simplified component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Shorthand for the 鳥 component in the traditional character 鳳.

凡 sound component

凡  Sound component

fán

  

all

Evolution

凤 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
凤 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
凤 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

凤 (鳳) 

fèng

male phoenix; symbol of joy; phoenix

凤 (鳳) 

Fèng

surname Feng

Most common words with 凤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凤凰

Fenghuang county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiāng​xī​Tǔ​jiā​zú​Miáo​zú​zì​zhì​zhōu]

凤

phoenix

凤尾鱼

anchovy

龙凤

Longfeng district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆[Dà​qìng], Heilongjiang

凤梨

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

鳳

Unicode

U+51E4


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