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烽

fēng

Character

What 烽 means

1. beacon fire

Words starting with 烽

• 烽火fēng huǒfire beacon (to give alarm)
• 烽烟fēng yānfire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)
• 烽烟遍地fēng yān biàn dìfire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
• 烽燧fēng suìfire beacon tower…
• 烽火四起fēng huǒ sì qǐthe fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war
• 烽烟四起fēng yān sì qǐlit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war

Words containing 烽

• 息烽县Xī fēng XiànXifeng, a county in Guiyang City 贵阳市
• 息烽Xī fēngsee 息烽县

Characters built on 夆

These share the phonetic component 夆 (féng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 峰fēng(of a mountain) high and tapered peak or summit; mountain-like in appearance…
• 蜂fēngbee; wasp
• 锋fēngpoint of a spear; edge of a tool; vanguard
• 逢féngto meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along

Characters that look like 烽

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

• 逢féngto meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along
• 捧pěngto hold or offer with both hands; to sing the praises of…
• 琅lángjade-like stone; clean and white; tinkling of pendants
• 腌āused in 腌臜; Taiwan pr. āng
• 晦huì(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
• 烩huìto braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water

Sounds the same

Read fēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 风wind; news; style
• 封to confer; to grant; to bestow a title
• 丰luxuriant; buxom; variant of 丰
• 疯insane; mad; wild
• 蜂bee; wasp
• 峰(of a mountain) high and tapered peak or summit; mountain-like in appearance…
• 锋point of a spear; edge of a tool; vanguard
• 枫maple (genus Acer)
• 葑turnip
• 沣rainy; place name in Shaanxi; Feng River in Shaanxi 陕西, tributary of Wei River 渭水
• 砜sulfone
• 酆Zhou Dynasty capital; surname Feng