烽
beacon fire
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How 烽 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
火 (semantic, “fire”) + 夆 (phonetic, féng)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 夆
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 夆 (féng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夆 sound component | féng | to resist; to headbutt |
| 峰 | fēng | peak, summit; a camel's hump |
| 蜂 | fēng | bee, wasp, hornet |
| 锋 | fēng | spear-point; edge, point, tip |
| 逢 | féng | to happen to meet; chance meeting, coincidence |
| 埄 | fēng | dust storm; dust in the wind |
Words containing 烽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烽火四起 | fēng huǒ sì qǐ | the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war |
| 烽烟四起 | fēng yān sì qǐ | lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war |
| 息烽县 | Xī fēng Xiàn | Xifeng, a county in Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市[Gui4 yang2 Shi4], Guizhou |
| 烽烟遍地 | fēng yān biàn dì | fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 烽火 | fēng huǒ | fire beacon (to give alarm) |
| 烽烟 | fēng yān | fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance) |
| 息烽 | Xī fēng | see 息烽縣|息烽县[Xi1 feng1 Xian4] |
| 烽燧 | fēng suì | fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the… |