Read Edit View history Discussion 風 fēngfèng HSK1 wind Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Originally written the same as 鳳 (phoenix) because the two characters sounded the same. Later the bottom part of the character was abbreviated to distinguish the two characters. Pinyin Separate values with commas fēng × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 风 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 風 Simp strokes 風 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Abbreviated remnant of 鳳, originally a pictograph of a mythical bird. Later reanalyzed as 虫. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 風 Simp strokes 風 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 風 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 239, 728 ], [ 257, 720 ], [ 280, 696 ], [ 291, 631 ], [ 292, 442 ], [ 277, 333 ], [ 245, 231 ], [ 210, 168 ], [ 154, 98 ], [ 93, 50 ] ], [ [ 324, 692 ], [ 335, 708 ], [ 399, 724 ], [ 708, 776 ], [ 747, 769 ], [ 764, 746 ], [ 744, 673 ], [ 735, 610 ], [ 725, 441 ], [ 741, 315 ], [ 764, 237 ], [ 797, 172 ], [ 837, 123 ], [ 885, 87 ], [ 929, 74 ], [ 948, 114 ], [ 962, 237 ] ], [ [ 545, 644 ], [ 554, 633 ], [ 558, 599 ], [ 495, 554 ], [ 386, 492 ] ], [ [ 333, 400 ], [ 358, 380 ], [ 366, 363 ], [ 396, 240 ] ], [ [ 385, 395 ], [ 402, 390 ], [ 582, 440 ], [ 603, 437 ], [ 634, 411 ], [ 602, 337 ], [ 580, 324 ] ], [ [ 412, 260 ], [ 427, 270 ], [ 568, 299 ], [ 622, 293 ] ], [ [ 464, 513 ], [ 489, 496 ], [ 490, 485 ], [ 490, 184 ], [ 474, 157 ] ], 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