馮 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

féng, píng

surname

Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 冫 represents the sound.

Components

馬 Meaning component

mǎ

horse

冫 Sound component

bīng

ice

冫 is a component form of 冰.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

féng

surname; gallop; by dint of

Féng

surname Feng

píng

to gallop; to assist; to attack; to wade; great; old variant of 憑|凭[píng]

Most common words with 馮

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	冯	to gallop
	冯玉祥	Feng Yuxiang (1882-1948), warlord during Republic of China, strongly critical of Chiang Kai-shek
	冯友兰	Feng Youlan (1895-1990), distinguished Chinese philosopher
	冯骥才	Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人
	冯梦龙	Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說\|古今小说[GǔjīnXiǎoshuō]