金凤

金鳳
jīnfèng
noun #34,366

Meanings

  1. 1 golden phoenix (literary)
  2. 2 another name for the balsam flower (凤仙花)
  3. 3 (common given name for women, especially in older generations)

Examples

Tā jiào Wáng Jīnfèng, shì nǎinai bèi de míngzì.
Her name is Wang Jinfeng — a name from grandma's generation.
Yuànzi lǐ zhòng le jǐ cóng jīnfèng.
A few clumps of balsam are planted in the courtyard.

Tips

culture
金凤 has three lives: a poetic name for the phoenix (paired with 'jade dragon' in classical couplets); an alternative name for (balsam, used to dye fingernails red); and an extremely common given name for women born from the 1940s through the 1970s — alongside 桂花, , .
memory
(gold) + (phoenix) — a near-perfect feminine auspicious pairing. The phoenix in Chinese symbolism is female (paired with the male dragon ), so 金凤 reads naturally as a women's name.

Stroke Order

jīn
fèng