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讽

fěng

HSK 5 Character Traditional 諷

What 讽 means

1. to satirize
2. to mock
3. to recite
4. Taiwan pr. fèng

Example sentences

• 你不觉得这个名字很讽刺吗，“神圣的战争”？
  Nǐ bù juéde zhège míngzi hěn fěngcì ma,“ shénshèng de zhànzhēng ”?
  Don't you think the name "The Sacred War" sounds a bit sarcastic?
• 你不觉得这个名字很讽刺吗，「神圣的战争」？
  Don't you think the name "The Sacred War" sounds a bit sarcastic?
• 人们在备感嘲讽时最生气。这也是为何对自己感到自信的人们不容易生气。
  Rénmen zài bèi gǎn cháofěng shí zuì shēngqì. zhè yě shì wèihé duì zìjǐ gǎndào zìxìn de rénmen bù róngyì shēngqì.
  People are most angry when they feel they are being mocked. That's why those who are confident in themselves seldom become angry.
• 作家路易斯・费尔南多・沃瑞西莫在巴西阿雷格里港去世，他是位专栏作家，能以讽刺、精确、敏感的文笔团结几代读者。
  Writer Luiz Fernando Veríssimo, a columnist capable of uniting generations of readers with irony, precision and sensitivity, died in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• 就是这个答案，让那些长久以来被灌输要嘲讽、害怕和怀疑自身能力的人们 把他们的手放在历史的弧线上，将它弯向一个更美好的一天的希望。
  Jiùshì zhège dá'àn, ràng nàxiē chángjiǔ yǐlái bèi guànshū yào cháofěng, hàipà hé huáiyí zìshēn nénglì de rénmen bǎ tāmen de shǒu fàng zài lìshǐ de húxiàn shàng, jiāng tā wān xiàng yī gè gèng měihǎo de yī tiān de xīwàng.
  It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long, by so many, to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve, to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
• 现在是我们回答这个问题的机会。这是我们的时刻这是我们的时代--让我们的人民重新就业，为我们的后代敞开机会之门，恢复繁荣，推进和平，重新确立“美国梦”，再次证明这样一个基本的真理：我们是一家人；只要一息尚存，我们就有希望；当我们遇到嘲讽和怀疑，当有人说我们办不到的时候，我们要以这个永恒的信条来回应他们。是的，我们能做到
  Xiànzài shì wǒmen huídá zhège wèntí de jīhuì. zhè shì wǒmen de shíkè zhè shì wǒmen de shídài -- ràng wǒmen de rénmín chóngxīn jiùyè, wèi wǒmen de hòudài chǎngkāi jīhuì zhī mén, huīfù fánróng, tuījìn hépíng, chóngxīn quèlì "Měiguó mèng ", zàicì zhèngmíng zhèyàng yī gè jīběn de zhēnlǐ: wǒmen shì yījiārén; zhǐyào yī xī shàng cún, wǒmen jiù yǒuxīwàng; dāng wǒmen yùdào cháofěng hé huáiyí, dāng yǒurén shuō wǒmen bànbudào de shíhou, wǒmen yào yǐ zhège yǒnghéng de xìntiáo láihuí yīng tāmen. shìde, wǒmen néng zuòdào
  This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people.

Words starting with 讽

• 讽刺fěng cìto satirize; to mock; irony
• 讽喻fěng yùparable; allegory; satire
• 讽谏fěng jiàn(literary) to remonstrate with one's superior tactfully
• 讽谕fěng yùvariant of 讽喻

Words containing 讽

• 嘲讽cháo fěngto sneer at; to ridicule; to taunt
• 讥讽jī fěngto satirize; to ridicule; to mock
• 冷嘲热讽lěng cháo rè fěngfrigid irony and scorching satire (idiom); to mock and ridicule
• 反讽fǎn fěngirony; to satirize
• 仿讽fǎng fěngparody
• 借古讽今jiè gǔ fěng jīnto use the past to disparage the present (idiom)

Characters built on 风

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

• 疯fēnginsane; mad; wild
• 枫fēngmaple (genus Acer)
• 砜fēngsulfone

Characters that look like 讽

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

• 识shíto know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. shì
• 训xùnto teach; to train; to admonish; (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings…
• 讯xùn(bound form) to ask; to inquire; (bound form) to interrogate; to question…
• 驳bóvariegated; heterogeneous; to refute
• 讷nèto speak slowly; inarticulate
• 诋dǐto defame; to slander

Sounds the same

Read fěng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 覂to throw a rider
• 唪recite; chant