fēng

point of spear

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

metal

夆 sound component

  Sound component

féng

  

resist

Evolution

鋒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鋒 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鋒 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鋒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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fēng

point of spear, sharp point; point of a spear; edge of a tool; vanguard; forward (in sports team)

Most common words with 鋒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

前锋

vanguard

vanguard

锋利

incisive

先锋

vanguard

刀锋

cutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰ(r)oŋ

phjowng

fēng

point of a weapon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.3774% of movies

2049th most common character in movies

1671st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+92D2

Shuowen

“鏠,兵耑也。从金,逢聲。”


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