風

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

风

🇨🇳

wind

HSK 10 N3

Nature →Weather

fēng

フウ、フ

かぜ、かざ-

풍

Originally written the same as 鳳 (phoenix) because the two characters sounded the same. Later the bottom part of the character was abbreviated to distinguish the two characters.

Components

Traditional (風)

凡 ordinary+ 鳳 male phoenix =

風 wind

凡 Phonetic component

fán ordinary

variant of 凡[fán]

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鳳

male phoenix

Abbreviated remnant of 鳳, originally a pictograph of a mythical bird. Later reanalyzed as 虫.

Simplified (风)

凡 ordinary+ 㐅 ancient =

风 wind

凡 Phonetic component

fán ordinary

variant of 凡[fán]

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㐅 Simplified component

wǔ ancient

(an ancient form of U+4E94 五) five

Shorthand for the 虫 component in the traditional character 風.

Notes

Similar Characters

凤 phoenix (simp)帆 sail 梵 Buddhist 矾 alum (simp)般 sort 釩 vanadium (trad)钒 vanadium (iii) (simp)风 breeze (simp)鳳 male phoenix (trad)同 same 旁 side 歬 go forward 佩 wear at the waist 服 apparel

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

风

Regular

Modern

Chinese

风 / 風 [fēng]

wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhèn],絲|丝[sī]

Japanese

風かぜ同音

noun

wind; breeze; draught; draft
manner; behaviour; behavior
cold; influenza (irreg. kanji form)

風ふう同音

adj-na

method; manner; way; style
appearance; air
tendency
folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
wind (one of the five elements)

振り、風 (rare) ふり同音

noun

swing; shake; sweep; wave; wag
usually kana appearance; behaviour; behavior
usually kana pretence; pretense; (false) show; pretending
usually kana (a customer) coming to restaurant, ryokan, etc. without a reservation or introduction
postures (of a dance)
usually kana lead in (to a joke, question, etc.); setup (usu. written as フリ in comedy contexts)
unsewn part of a hanging sleeve on a traditional Japanese woman's garment

counter

counter for swords, blades, etc.

Korean

풍 [風]

Noun

look; image; A peculiar mood or flair felt in a person.; fashion; trend; A trend and habit of certain times.; manners; A unique cultural style or form which people of a certain era or group share.

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (5)

カーテンが風になびいた。

The curtains blew in the wind.

それをどんな風に実行したらいいかが問題だ。

The question is how to carry it out.

あなたのサロン風のスカートが好きです。

I like your sarong style skirt.

人のふり見て我がふり直せ。

Learn wisdom from the faults of others.

Japanese Names

風かざ