HSK 5 · Nature

风景 fēngjǐng “scenery” in Chinese

Traditional 風景

What 风景 means

  1. scenery
  2. landscape

How to say 风景

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale风fēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale景jǐng3rd tone, dipping

风景 in a sentence

  1. 他们欣赏了美丽的风景。

    Tāmen xīnshǎng le měilì de fēngjǐng.

    They admired the beautiful scenery.

    Sentence #13573146 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 这风景美得无法形容。

    Zhè fēngjǐng měi de wúfǎ xíngróng.

    The scenery was indescribably beautiful.

    Sentence #795259 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 这些树挡住了风景。

    Zhèxiē shù dǎngzhù le fēngjǐng.

    These trees block the view.

    Sentence #4504331 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 风景 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 风 (fēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
风fēngwind
  • 几table · jī
  • 乂to govern · yì

Memory aidSimplified from 風. Picture a sail 几 filled by the wind, with a swirl 乂 inside: wind.

The character 景 (jǐng) with each of its parts in a different colour
景jǐngscenery
  • 日sun · rì
  • 京capital city · jīng

How to write 风景

风 4 strokes · 景 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

风景 (fēngjǐng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 风景 (fēngjǐng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 风景

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FAQs

风景 (fēngjǐng) means “scenery” or “landscape”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it fēngjǐng: fēng with a 1st tone, then jǐng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 风景 is written 風景. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fengjing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 风景 from the suggestions. Typing fengjing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
风景 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.