The Radical: 風


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Meaning
wind    風

Explanation often simplified to

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 3
wind, style, manner
fēng
Simplified from , which showed a sail with a sail tree and an insect
It blows an insect into the sail: The wind.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 5
admire, to respect, to wear (belt etc)
pèi
Left: person , right: sail (cf. wind ) and cloth
The person sees in the sail a piece of cloth, admires it and wants to wear it.

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JLPT HSK 5
to flutter, to float
piāo
Left: ticket/bank note (In the west 覀/西 you show your ticket.) [West: 西 = Under the horizon the sun sinks at the sunset in the west], right: wind / (Into the sail an insect is pushed by wind.)
(West wind is weak?) The west shows in the sail by: fluttering.

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JLPT HSK 5
insane, mad, wild
fēng
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: Wind / (The insect is blown into the sail by the wind .)
The disease when you behave as fickle as the wind is: insanity.

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JLPT HSK 5
satirize, to ridicule
fèng
Left: word /, right: wind / (sail with insect )
Words against the wind means to: satirize.

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JLPT HSK 6
sail, canvas
fān
Left: cloth , right: sail with something (cf. common = A table / with a scratch is common.) [cf. wind , which is simplified from ]
Cloth is commonly used for sails.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 6
ridicule, to mock

Left: /, right: flat table (but here: sail, cf. wind )
Words like against a sail: Do you want to ridicule me?

Vocabulary
JLPT no HSK
mist, name of a mountain
lán
Top: mountain , bottom: wind / (It blows an insect =against a sail : The wind)
(From the distance:) It looks like a mountain and moves with the wind: The mist.

Vocabulary
JLPT no HSK
maple
fēng
Left: tree , right: wind / (insect = in a sail )
This tree has (large) leaves that are blown by the wind: the maple.

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JLPT no HSK
whirlwind, violent wind
biāo
Left: 猋 = 3x dog (The big man holds in his arms: a dog ), right: wind / (insect blown into a sail)
Like three dogs, such a wind: a whirlwind!

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