fèng

gift

Evolution

賵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
賵 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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fèng

gift; (literary) gift (of money etc) to a bereaved family; to contribute to funeral expenses

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[pʰ](r)u[ŋ]-s

phjuwngH

fèng

gift in aid of burial


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7567th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8CF5

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“賵,贈死者。从貝,从冒。冒者,衣衾覆冒之意。”


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