鳳

See also 凤, and 鳯

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 凡 + 鳥 (“bird”).

Graphically, the stroke inside the enclosure has merged with 鳥; compare similar development in 風 (from 虫).

Han character

鳳 (radical 196 鳥+3, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓一日火 (HNMAF), four-corner 7721₀)

1. male phoenix
2. symbol of joy

See also

• 凰
• 鵬

References

• KangXi: page 1482, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46671
• Dae Jaweon: page 2014, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4616, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9CF3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鳳 (simplified 凤, Yale fung6)

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Japanese

Kanji

鳳

Readings

• On: ほう (hō), ふう (fū)
• Kun: おおとり (ootori)

Compounds

• 鳳凰
• 鳳雛
• 鳳声
• 鳳仙花
• 鳳輦

Proper noun

鳳 (hiragana おおとり, romaji Ōtori)

1. A surname.

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Korean

Hanja

鳳 (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune-Reischauer pong, Yale pong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鳳 (simplified 凤, pinyin fèng (feng4), Wade-Giles feng⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鳳 (phượng, phụng)