fēng
point of spear
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鋒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
vanguard | ||
vanguard | ||
incisive | ||
vanguard | ||
cutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰ(r)oŋ | phjowng | fēng | point of a weapon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.3774% of movies
2049th most common character in movies
1671st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+92D2 |
Shuowen | “鏠,兵耑也。从金,逢聲。” |
Sources
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