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
3. manners, atmosphere

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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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

風気 (ふうき, fūki): lit. "winds, air atmosphere" 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)