馮

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See also: 冯
馮 U+99AE, 馮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99AE
← 馭
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 馯 →

Translingual

Han character

馮 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+2, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈一尸手火 (IMSQF), four-corner 31127, composition ⿰冫馬)

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1433, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44579
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1958, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4540, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+99AE

Chinese

trad. 馮
simp. 冯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 馮
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (仌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冫 *prɯŋ
冰 *pŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋ
砅 *pʰrɯŋ, *rads
馮 *brɯŋ, *bɯŋ
憑 *bɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *brɯŋ, *bɯŋ) : phonetic 仌 (OC *pŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋ) + semantic 馬 (“horse”).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • pâng - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • hông - literary.
Rime
Character 馮
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 東 (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 房戎切
Baxter bjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/biuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/biuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/buwŋ/
Li
Rong 		/biuŋ/
Wang
Li 		/bĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		féng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fung4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 馮
Reading # 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		píng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bjuwng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*əŋ/
English Féng (surname)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 馮
Reading # 2/2
No. 861
Phonetic
component 		仌
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		馮
Old
Chinese 		/*bɯŋ/

Definitions

馮

  1. a place near modern Luoyang
  2. a surname
    馮國璋／冯国璋  ―  Féng Guózhāng  ―  Feng Guozhang (Chinese general and politician in early republican China)
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Descendants

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 馮
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 扶冰切
Baxter bing
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/bieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/biŋ/
Li
Rong 		/biəŋ/
Wang
Li 		/bĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		píng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ping4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 馮 馮
Reading # 1/3 2/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		píng píng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bing › ‹ bing ›
Old
Chinese 		/*rəŋ/ /*rəŋ/
English full, solid lean on

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 馮
Reading # 1/2
No. 858
Phonetic
component 		仌
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		凭
Old
Chinese 		/*brɯŋ/

Definitions

馮

  1. to gallop
  2. (alt. form 淜, 憑／凭) to wade; to cross a river on foot
    暴虎馮河／暴虎冯河  ―  bàohǔfénghé  ―  recklessly courageous
  3. full; great
  4. to covet
  5. to bully
  6. to seize; to encroach on
  7. to climb; to ascend
  8. Alternative form of 憑／凭 (píng, “to lean on”)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

馮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. (proper name character)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

馮 • (pung) (hangeul 풍, revised pung, McCune–Reischauer p'ung, Yale phung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

馮: Hán Nôm readings: Phùng

  1. a Vietnamese surname
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