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(fēng) - crazy, mad, insane in Mandarin

fēng

Traditional: 瘋

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Coloured illustration of 疯
HSK 4
#450 of 5,000 Core 1000

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

Stroke order for 疯

Examples

Are you crazy?

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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