冯
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to gallop; to assist; to attack; to wade; great; old variant of 憑|凭[ping2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 冫 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 馮
- Common rank
- #3,096
- Unicode
- U+51AF
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
Feng · Heisig RSH #3007
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 冯
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暴虎冯河 | lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom); fig. to dis… | |
| 冯德莱恩 | Ursula von der Leyen (1958-), German politician, president of the European Commission from… | |
| 冯内果 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007), US writer | |
| 冯德英 | Feng Deying (1935–2022), author of the 1958 novel Bitter Herbs 苦菜花[Ku3 cai4 hua1] | |
| 冯友兰 | Feng Youlan (1895-1990), distinguished Chinese philosopher | |
| 冯梦龙 | Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), auth… | |
| 冯武 | Feng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition; also called 馮竇伯|冯… | |
| 冯玉祥 | Feng Yuxiang (1882-1948), warlord during Republic of China, strongly critical of Chiang Ka… | |
| 冯窦伯 | Feng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition; also called 馮武|冯武… | |
| 冯骥才 | Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary … |