féng
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to butt heads (of horned animals); to meet head-on (archaic)

Examples

Wǒmen yìzhí pá dào shānfēng.
We climbed all the way to the mountain peak.

Tips

history
('to butt / meet head-on') is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives as the phonetic in (mountain peak), (bee), (sharp edge), (to meet / encounter), and (seam / to sew).
register
Archaic. The 'butt heads' reading is the one that explains its phonetic family; an older tradition also reads differently in rare classical use.

Components

semantic
zhǐ
advancing foot
The 'foot coming down' on top adds the idea of two parties moving toward each other in .
phonetic
fēng
lush; phonetic element
The lower element supplies the sound and ties into the / phonetic family.

Stroke Order

féng