字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The oracle bone and bronze stages show 鳳, not 風 itself.
部首Radical · in Nature & Elements
風
風 wind
かぜ kaze
9 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 3
Your ink in 風0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar
Origin · sourced
Other
Jiajie (假借) of 鳳 (“fenghuang”) borrowed for sound to represent 風 (“wind”), sometimes with 凡 added as a phonetic.
Source: Wiktionary, 風 (rev. 92747648), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a powerful gust of wind blowing through a valley! The outer frame represents the forceful movement of the air. Inside is a small insect—reflecting the ancient belief that the wind was the breath of the world that carried life and tiny creatures wherever it blew.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Relates to air, atmosphere, style, or things that move invisibly but powerfully through the world
一覧
Every kanji with 風 as its radical
Most used first