缝 (féng): to sew

Meanings

1 to sew
2 to stitch
3 to suture; to mend

Characters

缝

féng

to sew

Examples

妈妈在缝衣服。

Māma zài féng yīfu.

Mom is sewing clothes.

这个扣子掉了，帮我缝一下。

Zhè ge kòuzi diào le, bāng wǒ féng yīxià.

This button fell off — please sew it back on for me.

医生把伤口缝合了。

Yīshēng bǎ shāngkǒu fénghé le.

The doctor stitched up the wound.

Tips

mistakes

Verb-vs-noun is the whole game here. 缝 (rising tone) is the verb 'to sew' — 缝衣服 (sew clothes), 缝合 (suture), 缝纫 (sewing). The same character read 缝 (falling tone) is the noun 'seam / crack / gap' — 门缝 (door gap), 裂缝 (crack). Verb → action → féng; noun → result → fèng.

memory

The phonetic 逢 ('to meet') doubles as a meaning hook on the verb reading: sewing brings two pieces of cloth together where they meet. The noun reading fèng is what you get when the meeting fails — a gap where the cloth doesn't quite come together.

Components

radical

纟 sī

silk; thread (radical, left-side form of 糸)

Left silk radical — the simplified side-form of 糸. Marks 缝 as a thread action: stitching, sewing, joining cloth. Same radical anchors the entire fabric-and-fiber family: 织 (to weave), 绣 (to embroider), 线 (thread), 绳 (rope), 纺 (to spin).

phonetic

逢 féng

to meet, encounter (phonetic)

Right side 逢 supplies the sound — féng exact match. 逢 itself means 'to meet, come together,' which doubles beautifully as a memory hook: sewing brings two pieces of cloth together where they meet. A near-perfect phono-semantic compound where the phonetic carries genuine meaning support.