風 Radical 182 — wind; a manner, a style, a custom
fēng (first tone, high and level)
wind; a manner, a style, a custom
Radical 1829 strokes0 characters
Also written 风 — the same radical in a different position inside the character.
Where the shape comes from
An old enclosure shape holding 虫, an insect, inside it, from a belief that linked the wind to the small creatures it seemed to stir into life, or carry along, everywhere it blew — the insect dropped from the simplified 风, which keeps only the outer sweep. It names the weather itself in 台风, a typhoon, and extends easily to style, manner, custom, in 风格, style, and 风景, scenery, literally wind and light, the mood a place carries in the air.
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