封
fēng HSK2

letter

封 fēng
[classifier] measure word
Used for letters or objects in an envelope or paper wrapping

记得你的第一封信吗？

jì de nǐ de dì​yī fēng xìn ma?

Do you remember your first letter?

envelope noun
(bound form) envelope; paper wrapping or cover for a package
to seal verb
to seal; to close up; to bank a fire; to cover up so as to make airtight or invisible

把房间封起来。

bǎ fáng​jiān fēng qǐ lai.

Seal the room off.

我把信放进信封里，写上地址，但是我没有把它们封起来。

wǒ bǎ xìn fàng jìn xìn​fēng li, xiě shàng dì​zhǐ, dàn​shì wǒ méi​yǒu bǎ tā​men fēng qǐ lai.

I put the letters into envelopes and addressed them, but I didn’t seal them up.

to block verbadjective
to block off; to close down; to restrict access or activity
to confer
to confer a title, territory, or rank upon someone; to grant; to bestow
border
(literary) border; boundary; frontier
Feng
the Chinese surname Feng
to mound
(literary) to heap up earth (to mark a boundary, build an altar, or form a burial mound)

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
871st most common 201.3 per million
Movie subtitles
963rd most common 112.3 per million appears in 38% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
76.3 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
67.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+5C01

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)