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奉

fèng

offer

Phonosemantic compound. 廾 and 扌 represent the meaning and 丰 represents the sound.

Components
丰 sound component

丰  Sound component

fēng

  

luxuriant

廾 meaning component

廾  Meaning component

gǒng

  

two hands

扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

Evolution

奉 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
奉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
奉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

奉  

fèng

offer; receive; serve; respect; to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)

Most common words with 奉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奉献

to consecrate

奉

to esteem

无可奉告

(idiom) "no comment"

信奉

belief

奉命

to receive orders

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

捧 俸

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

棒 捧 俸 唪 埲

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-pʰ(r)oŋʔ

bjowngX

fèng

present (v.) with both hands

*pʰ(r)oŋʔ

phjowngX

fèng

hold with both hands; to present; receive


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 15.0408% of movies

1779th most common character in movies

1382nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5949

Shuowen

“奉，承也。从手，从廾，丰聲。”


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