péng
fabulous bird of enormous size
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 朋 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鵬
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|---|---|---|
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Li Peng (1928-), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown | ||
Li Yapeng (1971-), PRC actor | ||
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Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
1926th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9D6C |
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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