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冯

píng

Character Traditional 馮

What 冯 means

1. to gallop
2. to assist
3. to attack
4. to wade
5. great
6. old variant of {凭|píng}

Other readings

冯 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Féngsurname Feng

Example sentences

• 冯迪索在做俯卧撑时，并不是把自身往上推，而是在把地球向下推。
  Féng dí suǒ zài zuò fǔwòchēng shí, bìngbù shì bǎ zìshēn wǎng shàng tuī, érshì zài bǎ dìqiú xiàngxià tuī.
  When Vin Diesel does pushups, he's not pushing himself up - he's pushing the Earth down.

Words starting with 冯

• 冯友兰Féng Yǒu lánFeng Youlan (1895-1990), distinguished Chinese philosopher
• 冯玉祥Féng Yù xiángFeng Yuxiang (1882-1948), warlord during Republic of China, strongly critical of Chiang…
• 冯骥才Féng Jì cáiFeng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary…
• 冯武Féng WǔFeng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition; also called 冯窦伯
• 冯内果Féng nèi guǒKurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007), US writer
• 冯梦龙Féng Mèng lóngFeng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua)…
• 冯德英Féng Dé yīngFeng Deying (1935–2022), author of the 1958 novel Bitter Herbs 苦菜花
• 冯德莱恩Féng dé lái ēnUrsula von der Leyen (1958-), German politician, president of the European Commission…
• 冯窦伯Féng Dòu bóFeng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition; also called 冯武

Words containing 冯

• 暴虎冯河bào hǔ píng hélit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)…

Characters that look like 冯

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 因yīncause; reason; because
• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
• 写xiěto write
• 历lìcalendar
• 冈gāngridge; mound
• 闯chuǎngto rush; to charge; to dash

Sounds the same

Read píng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 苹(artemisia); duckweed
• 瓶bottle; vase; pitcher
• 评to discuss; to comment; to criticize
• 平flat; level; smooth; to make even; to level; equal; on the same level
• 凭to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of
• 屏(standing) screen
• 萍duckweed
• 坪a plain; ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters…
• 呯(onomatopoeia) bang! (gong, gun firing etc)
• 玶name of one kind of jade
• 鲆family of flatfish; sole
• 帡used in 帡幪