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馮

简冯 · 繁馮

Mandarin · pinyin píng#

Mandarin · pinyin Féng#

surname Feng

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馮: Look up this written character
冯: féng · surname; gallop; by dint of

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2 · ping2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fung4 · pang4

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a place near modern Luoyang
a surname
a respelling of the German patronymic von

character

(literary) to gallop
(literary) (alt. form 淜, 憑／凭) to wade; to cross a river on foot
(literary) full; great
(literary) to bully; to humiliate
(literary) to climb; to ascend
(literary) alternative form of 憑 /凭 (píng, “to lean on”)
used in 馮生／冯生

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