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Mythic Mandarin

封 (fēng): meaning and stroke order

封 (fēng) means to confer, to grant, to bestow a title, to seal.

封

Simplified
封
Traditional
封 (same form)
Pinyin
fēng

Stroke order of 封

封

  • Fēng surname Feng
  • fēng to confer; to grant
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 封

  1. fēng
    • to confer
    • to grant
    • to bestow a title
    • to seal
    • classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
  2. Fēng
    • surname Feng

Radical and structure

封
Radical 寸 (Kangxi radical 41) · 9 strokes · 圭 on the left, 寸 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

封 in our stories

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  • 许诺心里很难过,她给白露写了一封信,说自己错了。

    Xǔ Nuò xīnli hěn nánguò tā gěi Bái Lù xiě le yì fēng xìn shuō zìjǐ cuò le

    Xu Nuo felt terrible. She wrote Bai Lu a letter saying she was wrong.

    From the story That last piece HSK 3

  • 第二天,她给总部写了一封长长的邮件:她愿意接受这个职位,但希望每个月有一个星期在西安远程工作。

    dì-èr tiān tā gěi zǒngbù xiě le yì fēng chángcháng de yóujiàn tā yuànyì jiēshòu zhè gè zhíwèi dàn xīwàng měi gè yuè yǒu yí gè xīngqī zài Xī'ān yuǎnchéng gōngzuò

    The next day she wrote head office a long email: she would accept the post, but asked to work remotely from Xi'an one week each month.

    From the story No perfect answer HSK 6

  • 唐僧越听越生气,写下一封贬书,把悟空赶回了花果山。

    Táng Sēng yuè tīng yuè shēngqì xiě xià yì fēng biǎnshū bǎ Wùkōng gǎn huí le Huāguǒ Shān

    The more Tang Seng listened, the angrier he became. He wrote a letter of dismissal and drove Wukong back to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

Stories using 封

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).