fèn
strive, exert effort
Simplified form of 奮. 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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 奋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
excited | ||
to strive | ||
hardworking | ||
to strive | ||
to stir oneself up |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 34.6468% of movies
1124th most common character in movies
1268th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+594B |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.291
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