fèng
offer
Phonosemantic compound. 廾 and 扌 represent the meaning and 丰 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
fèng
offer; receive; serve; respect; to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
Most common words with 奉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to consecrate | ||
to esteem | ||
(idiom) "no comment" | ||
belief | ||
to receive orders |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-pʰ(r)oŋʔ | bjowngX | fèng | present (v.) with both hands |
*pʰ(r)oŋʔ | phjowngX | fèng | hold with both hands; to present; receive |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 15.0408% of movies
1779th most common character in movies
1382nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5949 |
Shuowen | “奉，承也。从手，从廾，丰聲。” |
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