Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 封

Modern (Beijing) reading: fēng

Preclassic Old Chinese: poŋ

Classic Old Chinese: poŋ

Western Han Chinese: poŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: poŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: poŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: poŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: poŋ

Middle Chinese: pöuŋ

English meaning : be great; (raised earth: ) boundary embankment; fief; altar

Russian meaning[s]: 1) запечатывать; опечатывать; закрывать; 2) блокировать; 3) ист. жаловать должностью (территорией); лен, инвеститура; 4) граница; пределы территории; 5) конверт; счетный суффикс конвертов, пакетов, свертков; 6) крупный; 7) насыпать (холм); насыпь; 8) Фэн (фамилия)

Comments: Cf. 逢 *boŋ.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 41

Four-angle index: 3092

Karlgren code: 1197 i-j

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pŏŋ

Meaning: swell up; gather, assemble

Chinese: 封 *poŋ mound, tumulus; to earth up (a plant) etc.

Tibetan: phuŋ heap, mass, accumulation, spuŋ (p., i. spuŋs) to heap.

Burmese: phauŋh to swell, phǝuŋʔ thicken.

Kachin: čǝbuŋ⁴ swollen belly; phuŋ¹ an assembly, a gathering.

Lushai: puŋ (pun) to increase (as water in river).

Comments: Bodo búŋ be thick, puŋ to grow fat. Coblin 110.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 719

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 封

MC description : 通合三平鍾非

ZIHUI: 1409 2424

Beijing: fǝŋ 11

Jinan: fǝŋ 11

Xi'an: fǝŋ 11

Taiyuan: fǝŋ 1

Hankou: foŋ 11

Chengdu: foŋ 11

Yangzhou: fɔuŋ 11

Suzhou: foŋ 11

Wenzhou: xoŋ 11

Changsha: xoŋ 11

Shuangfeng: xaŋ 11; xǝn 11

Nanchang: фuŋ 11

Meixian: fuŋ 11

Guangzhou: fuŋ 11

Xiamen: hɔŋ 11

Chaozhou: hoŋ 11

Fuzhou: xuŋ 11

Shanghai: foŋ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: fuŋ 1

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