Féng
noun #17,658

Meanings

  1. 1 Feng (surname)
  2. 2 to gallop; to charge

Examples

HSK 3
Féng lǎoshī shì wǒmen de bānzhǔrèn.
Teacher Feng is our class advisor.
HSK 4
Féng Xiǎogāng shì Zhōngguó zhùmíng de diànyǐng dǎoyǎn.
Feng Xiaogang is a famous Chinese film director.

Tips

culture
is one of China's most common surnames, ranking around 27th. Famous bearers: the warlord 冯玉祥, philosopher 冯友兰, filmmaker 冯小刚, and the Ming novelist 冯梦龙.

Components

radical
bīng
ice
Left-side ice radical - two short strokes representing frozen droplets, related to but distinct from the three-drop water . Indexes by the standard Kangxi system. Cold-related kin include cold, freeze, cool. As a surname character, the original semantic load is mostly historical residue.
phonetic
horse
Right supplies the sound, linked through the older reading píng of (still alive in classical Chinese, 'to gallop / wade'). the horse also reinforces that older 'galloping' sense. Today is overwhelmingly a surname.

Stroke Order

Féng