烽

烽	U+70FD, 烽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70FD

← 烼
[U+70FC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

烾 →
[U+70FE]

Translingual

Han character

烽 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火竹水十 (FHEJ), four-corner 9785₄, composition ⿰火夆)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 672, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19059
Dae Jaweon: page 1080, character 22
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2205, character 9
Unihan data for U+70FD

Chinese

trad.		烽
simp. ^#		烽
2nd round simp.		夆
alternative forms		熢㷭㶻炐𤑊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 烽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	pʰroːŋs, pʰroːŋs
蚌	broːŋʔ, breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	poːŋʔ, boːŋʔ
俸	poːŋʔ, boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	boːŋ, pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	boːŋʔ, boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	pʰoŋ, boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	boŋ, boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	boŋ, boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰoŋ): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 夆 (OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fēng (feng¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹
Eastern Min (BUC): hŭng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hong

(Teochew, Peng'im): hong¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹fon

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fong
  - Wade–Giles: fêng¹
  - Yale: fēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feng
  - Palladius: фэн (fɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fung¹
  - Yale: fūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong
  - Tâi-lô: hong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hofng
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hong¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hong
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hoŋ³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹fon
  - MiniDict: fon^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹fon
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /foŋ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: phjowng

Rime
Character	烽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷容切
Baxter	phjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuawŋ/
Li Rong	/pʰioŋ/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwoŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰoŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	烽
Reading #	1/1
No.	3228
Phonetic component	丰
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	峯
Old Chinese	/*pʰoŋ/

Definitions

烽

signal fire
the tower where such a signal fire is lit

Compounds

桔槔烽
烽候
烽子
烽櫓 / 烽橹
烽火 (fēnghuǒ)
烽火相連 / 烽火相连
烽火臺 / 烽火台 (fēnghuǒtái)
烽火連天 / 烽火连天
烽火館 / 烽火馆
烽煙 / 烽烟 (fēngyān)
烽煙四起 / 烽烟四起 (fēngyānsìqǐ)
烽燧 (fēngsuì)
烽鼓
狼烽
舉烽 / 举烽

Japanese

Kanji

烽

(Hyōgai kanji)

signal fire, beacon

Readings

Go-on: ふ (fu)、ふう (fū)
Kan-on: ほう (hō)
Kun: のろし (noroshi)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
烽
とぶひ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 烽 – see the following entry.

【飛とぶ火ひ】

[noun] (historical) signal fire or beacon, used in ancient times to warn of the approach of an enemy

(This term, 烽, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

“^▲烽”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

烽 • (bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune–Reischauer pong, Yale pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

烽: Hán Việt readings: phong

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