Féng
noun #17,658

Meanings

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

Examples

Féng lǎoshī shì wǒmen de bānzhǔrèn.
Teacher Feng is our class advisor.
Féngxiǎogāng 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 , philosopher , filmmaker 冯小刚, and the Ming novelist .

Components

radical
bīng
ice (two-stroke radical)
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 (here phonetic / semantic)
Right supplies the sound — mǎ shifts to féng via an old initial-cluster reconstruction; the link runs 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 (Han dynasty figure etc.).

Stroke Order

Féng