風

See also 风, and 虱

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 凡 + 虫 (“insects”)

Ancient Chinese thought insects appear with wind. (insects refer to any kind of animal, such as tigers (大蟲).

The stroke inside the enclosure has merged with the 虫, so compound is graphically 几 + 䖝; compare similar development in 鳳 (from 鳥).

Han character

風 (radical 182 風+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓竹中戈 (HNHLI), 竹弓一中戈 (HNMLI), four-corner 7721₀)

1. wind
2. air, atmosphere
3. manners

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/風
• 楓, 諷, 葻, 颿

References

• KangXi: page 1411, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43756
• Dae Jaweon: page 1930, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4480, character 1
• Unihan data for U+98A8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

風 (simplified 风, jyutping fung1, Yale fung1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

風 (POJ fung, Guangdong fung¹; fung¹, fung³ [Hailu, Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim fung1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Hmong

Hanzi

風

1. wind, air

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Japanese

Kanji

風 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ふう (fū), ふ (fu)
• Kun: かぜ (kaze)

Compounds

風圧 風雲 風化 風害 風紀 風景

風月 風車 風習 風塵 風雪 風俗

風袋 風潮 風体 風土 風物 風味

風流 風邪 風呂 風見鶏 神風

Noun

風 (hiragana かぜ, romaji kaze)

1. a movement of air; a wind
2. airs

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Korean

Hanja

風
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 풍 (revised: pung, McCune-Reischauer: p'ung, Yale: phung)

• Name (hangeul): 바람()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

風 (simplified 风, pinyin fēng (feng1), Wade-Giles feng¹)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

風 (POJ hong)

Compounds

• 風颱
• 颱風

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Vietnamese

Han character

風 (phong)