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鳳

fèng

male phoenix

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
鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

凡 sound component

凡  Sound component

fán

  

all

Evolution

鳳 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鳳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

凤 (鳳) 

fèng

male phoenix; symbol of joy; phoenix

凤 (鳳) 

Fèng

surname Feng

Most common words with 鳳
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

Component uses

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

風

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

14

Simplified

凤

Unicode

U+9CF3

Shuowen

“鳳，神鳥也。天老曰：鳳之象也，鴻前麐後，蛇頸魚尾，鸛顙鴛思，龍文虎背，燕頷雞喙，五色備舉。出於東方君子之國，翺翔四海之外，過崐崘，飲砥柱，濯羽弱水，莫宿風穴，見則天下大安寧。从鳥，凡聲。，古文鳳，象形。鳳飛羣鳥從以萬數，故以為朋黨字。，亦古文鳳。”


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