HSK Guide

部首 182wind; a manner, a style, a custom

fēng (first tone, high and level)

wind; a manner, a style, a custom

部首 1829 画0 汉字

Also written — 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.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.