péng

fabulous bird of enormous size

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
鸟 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

朋 sound component

  Sound component

péng

  

friend

Evolution

鹏 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鹏 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鹏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鹏 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鹏 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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péng

fabulous bird of enormous size

() 

Péng

Peng, large fabulous bird; roc

Most common words with 鹏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

roc

李鹏

Li Peng (1928-), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown

李亚鹏

Li Yapeng (1971-), PRC actor

鹏程万里

one's future prospects are brilliant

黄鹏

oriole

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

1926th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+9E4F


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