封
Meanings
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- 1.to confer
- 2.to grant
- 3.to bestow a title
- 4.to seal
- 5.classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- 1.surname Feng
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Wiktionary
- 1.border, boundary
- 2.state, domain, territory
- 3.to confer (a title) upon; to enfeoff
- 4.to grant (a position or title) to a subordinate
- 5.to pile up a mound
- 6.to earth up; to cultivate, nurture
- 7.to build a burial mound
- 8.grave, tomb
- 9.to bury, inter
- 10.to hide away
- 11.mound of earth
- 12.anthill
- 13.(alt. form 峰) raised or bulging part of something
- 14.to build an altar to worship heaven
- 15.to sacrifice to heaven to report success
- 16.altar built to worship heaven
- 17.to close, block; to seal tightly
- 18.to seal, shut out; to prohibit use; to restrict
- 19.to smear, apply; to cover
- 20.to seal up, wrap up
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *poŋ, *poŋs): abbreviated phonetic 丰 (OC *pʰoŋ, “seedling”) + semantic 土 (“earth”) + semantic 寸 (“hand”) – mark boundaries by planting trees. Compare 邦. Originally 丰, depicting a tree seedling. Variants that added any combination of 土 (“earth”), 又 (“hand”), 田 (“field”), 丮 (“kneeling person with hands stretched out”) appeared from bronze inscriptions onwards. Area etymon (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Tibetan ཕུང་པོ (phung po, “heap”), Tibetan སྤུང (spung, “heap”), Lepcha ᰣᰦᰎᰪᰵ (a-pŭŋ, “a heap; a stock”), Mizo [Term?] (puŋᴴ), [Term?] (punᴸ, “increase; assemble”), Mizo vûng (vuuŋᴴ), vûn (vuunᴸ, “swollen”), Mizo vûng (vuuŋᴿ, “heap; mound”), Chepang भुङ्हसा (bhuŋh-, “to be burst or peak of activity (flowering, field work etc.)”). Compare also Khmer ពោង (poong, “protuberances/bumps on an animal's head”), Khmer សំពោង (sɑmpoong, “puffed up; swollen”). 邦 (OC *proːŋ, “country”) may be the same etymon (Wang, 1982, Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
它是封长信。
It was a long letter.
她告訴我們道路被封閉了。
She told us the road was closed.
他没有接电话，所以我给他发了封邮件。
He didn't answer the phone, so I sent him an email.
他没有接电话，所以我给他发了封邮件。
He did not answer the phone, so I sent him an email.
汤姆给玛丽写了封长信，可是没有寄给她。
Tom wrote Mary a long letter, but he didn't send it to her.
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