鳳

See also: 凤 and 鳯
鳳 U+9CF3, 鳳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9CF3
← 鳲
[U+9CF2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鳴 →
[U+9CF4]

Translingual

Han character

鳳 (radical 196, 鳥+3, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓一日火 (HNMAF), four-corner 77210, composition ⿵𠘨𩾏)

References
  • KangXi: page 1482, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46671
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2014, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4616, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9CF3

Chinese
trad. 鳳
simp. 凤
variant forms 鳯
凤
风

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 鳳
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Ancient script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (凡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嵐 *b·ruːm
葻 *b·uːm
釩 *pʰomʔ
汎 *pʰoms, *bum
凡 *bom
帆 *bom, *boms
颿 *bom, *boms
軓 *bomʔ
梵 *bloms, *bum
芃 *boːŋ, *bum
風 *plum, *plums
飌 *plum
楓 *plum
猦 *plum
偑 *plum
檒 *plum
瘋 *plum
諷 *plums
堸 *blum
渢 *blum
鳳 *bums

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bums) : 凡 + 鳥 (“bird”).

In the oracle bone script, the script of 鳳 (OC *bums) was often phonetically borrowed to represent 風 (OC *plum, *plums, “wind”). Subsequent forms of the script of 風 were also derived from parts of the bronze inscription of 鳳.

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 鳳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 東 (2)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 馮貢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨuŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biuŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /biuŋH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭuŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯uŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fèng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鳳
Reading # 1/1
No. 2935
Phonetic
component		 凡
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 鳳
Old
Chinese		 /*bums/

Definitions

鳳

  1. (Chinese mythology) male fenghuang (a mythological bird)
  2. A surname​.

See also
  • 凰 (huáng, “female fenghuang”)

Compounds
Derived terms from 鳳

Japanese

Kanji
鳳

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. feng (male fire-bird) or other fabled bird
  2. person of excellence
  3. imperial
  4. expression of respect

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
鳳
ほう
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 鳳 (MC bɨuŋH).

Pronunciation

Noun

鳳 (hiragana ほう, rōmaji hō)

  1. (Chinese mythology) feng: a fabled male fire-bird, thought to be a manifestation of a saint
    Antonym: 凰 (ō, kō)
Derived terms
  • 鳳 (ほう)笙 (しょう) (hōshō)

Proper noun

鳳 (hiragana ほう, rōmaji Hō)

  1. a surname

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
鳳
おおとり
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

鳳 (hiragana おおとり, rōmaji ōtori, historical hiragana おほとり)

  1. Alternative spelling of 大鳥 (ōtori): any large bird (crane, stork, swan, etc.); a fabled, legendary, or mythological bird (fenghuang, peng, phoenix, roc, etc.)

Proper noun

鳳 (hiragana おおとり, rōmaji Ōtori, historical hiragana おほとり)

  1. a place name
  2. a surname

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鳳 • (bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune–Reischauer pong, Yale pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鳳 (phượng, phụng)

1. phoenix 2. Mohur tree

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