Keyword
beacon
- signal fire
- Frequency
- #3888
- Strokes
- 11
Readings
fēng
Mnemonic
火 (fire) gives the meaning and 夆 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
烽火
fire beacon (to give alarm)
烽烟
fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)
烽
beacon fire
烽燧
fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)
息烽县
Xifeng, a county in Guiyang City 贵阳市 (GuìyángShì), Guizhou
烽烟四起
lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war