fěng
recite
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 風 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 諷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to satirize | ||
to sneer at | ||
to satirize | ||
frigid irony and scorching satire (idiom); to mock and ridicule | ||
to mock |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*prəm-s | pjuwngH | fèng | to recite |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.1645% of movies
2026th most common character in movies
2322nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AF7 |
Shuowen | “諷,誦也。从言,風聲。” |
Sources
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