HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Nature, Animals

风 fēng “wind” in Chinese

Traditional 風

What 风 means

  1. wind
  2. news
  3. style
  4. custom
  5. manner

Measure word 阵 zhèn or 丝 sī · 一阵风 yí zhèn fēng

How to say 风

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale风fēng1st tone, high and level

风 in a sentence

  1. 她的帽子被风吹掉了。

    Tā de màozi bèi fēng chuī diào le.

    Her hat was blown off by the wind.

    Sentence #10258113 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 昨天一点风也没有。

    Zuótiān yìdiǎn fēng yě méiyǒu.

    There was no wind at all yesterday.

    Sentence #12420144 from Tatoeba

  3. 今天有风。

    Jīntiān yǒu fēng.

    It’s windy today.

    Sentence #510694 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 风 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.

How to write 风

风 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 风

Words with 风

刮风guāfēng · windy风险fēngxiǎn · risk风俗fēngsú · social custom风格fēnggé · style风景fēngjǐng · scenery麦克风màikèfēng · microphone (loanword)风味fēngwèi · local flavour风度fēngdù · manner风趣fēngqù · witty威风wēifēng · impressive

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FAQs

风 (fēng) means “wind” or “news”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it fēng: fēng with a 1st 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 is written 風. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 阵 (zhèn) or 丝 (sī). For example, one wind is 一阵风 (yí zhèn fēng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type feng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 风 from the suggestions. Typing feng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
风 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older 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.