fēng

maple tree

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

風 sound component

  Sound component

fēng

  

wind

Evolution

楓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
楓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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fēng

maple tree; maple (genus Acer)

Most common words with 楓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

maple (genus Acer)

枫叶

maple leaf

枫树

maple

枫木

maple

八角枫

alangium

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2334% of movies

3108th most common character in movies

3229th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+6953

Shuowen

“楓,木也,厚葉,弱枝,善搖。一名。从木,風聲。”


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