烽
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beacon fire
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 火 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 烽
- Common rank
- #3,465
- Unicode
- U+70FD
Formation & memory
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Words with 烽
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烽火四起 | the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
| 烽烟四起 | lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
| 息烽县 | Xifeng, a county in Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市[Gui4 yang2 Shi4], Guizhou | |
| 烽烟遍地 | fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war | |
| 烽火 | fire beacon (to give alarm) | |
| 烽烟 | fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance) | |
| 息烽 | see 息烽縣|息烽县[Xi1 feng1 Xian4] | |
| 烽燧 | fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夆 — compare how they read.