烽

烽 U+70FD, 烽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70FD ← 烼 [U+70FC] CJK Unified Ideographs 烾 → [U+70FE]

Translingual

Han character

烽 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火竹水十 (FHEJ), four-corner 9785₄, composition ⿰火夆)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 672, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19059
• Dae Jaweon: page 1080, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2205, character 9
• Unihan data for U+70FD

Chinese

trad.		烽
simp. #		烽
2nd round simp.		夆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 烽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	*pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌	*broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	*poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸	*poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	*boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	*boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	*boŋ, *boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	*boŋ, *boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰoŋ) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 夆 (OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēng (feng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): hŭng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hong¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹fon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fong
    • Wade–Giles: fêng¹
    • Yale: fēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feng
    • Palladius: фэн (fɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung¹
    • Yale: fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong
    • Tâi-lô: hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hong¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hoŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹fon
    • MiniDict: fon^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹fon
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /foŋ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: phjowng

Rime
Character	烽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷容切
Baxter	phjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuawŋ/
Li Rong	/pʰioŋ/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	烽
Reading #	1/1
No.	3228
Phonetic component	丰
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	峯
Old Chinese	/*pʰoŋ/

Definitions

烽

1. signal fire
2. the tower where such a signal fire is lit

Compounds

• 桔槔烽
• 烽候
• 烽子
• 烽櫓／烽橹
• 烽火 (fēnghuǒ)
• 烽火相連／烽火相连
• 烽火臺／烽火台 (fēnghuǒtái)
• 烽火連天／烽火连天
• 烽火館／烽火馆
• 烽煙／烽烟 (fēngyān)
• 烽煙四起／烽烟四起 (fēngyānsìqǐ)
• 烽燧 (fēngsuì)
• 烽鼓
• 狼烽
• 舉烽／举烽

 

Japanese

Kanji

烽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. signal fire, beacon

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu); ふう (fū)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: のろし (noroshi)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
烽
とぶひ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 烽 – see the following entry.

【飛とぶ火ひ】 [noun] (historical) signal fire or beacon, used in ancient times to warn of the approach of an enemy

(This term, 烽, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

烽 • (bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune–Reischauer pong, Yale pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

烽: Hán Việt readings: phong

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