Féng
noun #17,658

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 5
Féng lǎoshī shì wǒmen de bānzhǔrèn.
Teacher Feng is our class advisor.
HSK 5
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
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.
semantic
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.

Stroke Order

Féng