風

简 风 · 繁 風
Mandarin · pinyin fēng

Meanings

  1. wind
  2. news
  3. style
  4. custom
  5. manner
  6. Classifier: 陣 zhèn, 絲 sī
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風
fēng · wind; air; manners, atmosphere; Kangxi radical 182
风
fēng · wind; air; manners, atmosphere
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1 · feng1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fung1 · fung3

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character

  1. wind (Classifier: 陣/阵 m; 股 m)
  2. to air-dry
  3. (in compounds) air-dried
  4. general mood; custom
  5. demeanour
  6. cultivation; moralisation
  7. style; manner
  8. (in compounds) scene; scenery
  9. news; information
  10. love; affection; to become sexually attracted; to copulate
  11. dissolute; promiscuous
  12. ungrounded; baseless
  13. one of the three sections of Shijing, consisting of ballads
  14. (in general) folk song; ballad
  15. (obsolete) alternative form of 瘋 /疯 (fēng, “mad; insane”)
  16. (traditional Chinese medicine) one of the "Six Excesses" (六淫) that cause diseases in traditional Chinese medicine
  17. (traditional Chinese medicine) a type of diseases that are typically acute
  18. (Cantonese) rumour
  19. (Cantonese) short for 颱風/台风 (“typhoon”) (Classifier: 個/个 c; 隻/只 c)
  20. (Hokkien) minty
  21. (Philippine Hokkien) spicy
  22. (Magong Hokkien) fuel gas; gas
  23. a surname, Feng and Fung

character

  1. (obsolete) to blow; to fan
  2. (obsolete) to influence; to reform a misguided person through persuasion

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 諷 /讽 (fěng, “to criticize; to mock; to ridicule; to satire”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 諷 /讽 (fěng, “to advise in mild tone and indirect manner”)

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