漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
鳳: male mythical bird
JLPT N114 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
- 几table(meaning)
- 𩾏(form)
几 carries the meaning · 𩾏 is drawn in
14 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ホウhou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 鳳声ほうせいverbal message
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 鳳おおとりlarge bird
- 天鳳テンホーblessing of heaven
Also read フウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the bird perched on a branch, ready to take flight! The top horizontal line is the head, the box with a dot is the sharp eye, and the strokes below show the beautiful feathers of the wings and tail.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side鳳 male mythical bird · 几 + 𩾏
vs鳩 pigeon · 九 + 鳥In ChineseSimplified 凤 · traditional, as in Japanese · fèng
Japan keeps the traditional form 鳳; mainland China simplifies it to 凤.
- Simplified
- 凤 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 鳳 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fèng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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