(fēng) - crazy, mad, insane in Mandarin
fēngTraditional: 瘋
HSK 4
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Translation
crazy, mad, insane
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 疒 'illness' radical signals a sickness, and 风 (feng) 'wind' supplies the sound (and the old idea that madness was caused by wind). The character means 'crazy, mad'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 疒 (illness radical) + 风 (feng, phonetic)
Stroke order
疯
Examples
?
Are you crazy?
格。
This price is insane.
。
He ran like a madman.
?
Have you gone mad?
。
She ran out like a madwoman.
疯 (fēng) - crazy, mad, insane.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 疯.
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