夆

féng
verb

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 6
Wǒmen yìzhí pá dào shānfēng.
We climbed all the way to the mountain peak.

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

夆 féng