峰

See also: 峯

峰 U+5CF0, 峰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CF0 ← 峯 [U+5CEF] CJK Unified Ideographs 峱 → [U+5CF1]

Translingual

Han character

峰 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 山竹水十 (UHEJ), four-corner 2775₄, composition ⿰山夆)

Derived characters

• 𫌛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 311, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8094
• Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 775, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5CF0

Chinese

trad.		峰/峯
simp.		峰
2nd round simp.		夆

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	*pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌	*broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	*poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸	*poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	*boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	*boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	*boŋ, *boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	*boŋ, *boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰoŋ) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 夆 (OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	峰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷容切
Baxter	phjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuawŋ/
Li Rong	/pʰioŋ/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwoŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung1

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	峰
Reading #	1/1
No.	3225
Phonetic component	丰
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	峯
Old Chinese	/*pʰoŋ/
Notes	峯字注或體

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): fēng (feng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): fong¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fûng

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fung¹

• Eastern Min (BUC): hŭng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hong / pang

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fong
    • Wade–Giles: fêng¹
    • Yale: fēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feng
    • Palladius: фэн (fɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: fong¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: fung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /foŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fung¹
    • Yale: fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: fung^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fuŋ²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fʊŋ⁴⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong
    • Tâi-lô: hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hofng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pang
    • Tâi-lô: pang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pafng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ³³/

Note:

• hong - literary;
• pang - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hong¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hoŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: phjowng

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoŋ/

Definitions

峰

1. peak; summit
2. hump (of a camel)
3. Classifier for camels.

Compounds

• 丈人峰
• 三十六峰
• 三峰
• 上峰 (shàngfēng)
• 中峰 (Zhōngfēng)
• 主峰 (zhǔfēng)
• 九峰 (Jiǔfēng)
• 乳峰
• 五峰 (wǔfēng)
• 五峰先生
• 五老峰
• 仙峰寺
• 冰峰 (bīngfēng)
• 勃朗峰 (Bólǎng Fēng)
• 勢峰 / 势峰
• 十二峰
• 十二巫峰
• 十二晚峰
• 十二碧峰
• 千峰百嶂
• 千峰萬壑 / 千峰万壑
• 危峰
• 喬峰 / 乔峰
• 喜峰口
• 單峰駝 / 单峰驼 (dānfēngtuó)
• 單峰駱駝 / 单峰骆驼 (dānfēng luòtuo)
• 回峰
• 回樂峰 / 回乐峰
• 回雁峰
• 奇峰怪石
• 孤峰
• 孤峰絕岸 / 孤峰绝岸
• 尖峰 (jiānfēng)
• 尖峰時間 / 尖峰时间
• 尼峰
• 層峰 / 层峰
• 山峰 (shānfēng)
• 峰口 (Fēngkǒu)
• 峰回路轉 / 峰回路转
• 峰岑
• 峰岫
• 峰岠
• 峰峻
• 峰嵐 / 峰岚
• 峰嶂
• 峰嶺 / 峰岭
• 峰巔 / 峰巅 (fēngdiān)
• 峰巒 / 峰峦
• 峰巘 / 峰𪩘
• 峰巖 / 峰岩
• 峰朵
• 峰林
• 峰牛
• 峰穎 / 峰颖
• 峰脅 / 峰胁
• 峰腰
• 峰腹
• 峰腳 / 峰脚
• 峰距
• 峰迴路轉 / 峰回路转 (fēnghuílùzhuǎn)
• 峰靈 / 峰灵 (Fēnglíng)
• 峰頂 / 峰顶 (fēngdǐng)
• 峰頭 / 峰头
• 崑峰 / 昆峰
• 嵐峰 / 岚峰
• 巔峰 / 巅峰 (diānfēng)
• 巔峰狀態 / 巅峰状态
• 巔峰負載 / 巅峰负载
• 巫峰
• 布喀達坂峰 / 布喀达坂峰 (Bùkādábǎn Fēng)
• 懸峰 / 悬峰
• 才峰
• 攢峰 / 攒峰
• 文峰 (Wénfēng)
• 日觀峰 / 日观峰 (Rìguānfēng)
• 望峰息心
• 條峰 / 条峰
• 極峰 / 极峰
• 波峰 (bōfēng)
• 洪峰 (hóngfēng)
• 浪峰 (làngfēng)
• 煙峰 / 烟峰
• 爐峰 / 炉峰
• 獨峰牛 / 独峰牛
• 獨峰駝 / 独峰驼
• 獨秀峰 / 独秀峰
• 玉女峰
• 玉峰
• 玉霄峰
• 珠峰 (Zhūfēng)
• 珠穆朗瑪峰 / 珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng)
• 瑤峰 / 瑶峰
• 瓊峰 / 琼峰
• 登峰 (Dēngfēng)
• 登峰造極 / 登峰造极 (dēngfēngzàojí)
• 白朗峰
• 白鶴峰 / 白鹤峰
• 眉峰
• 眉峰碧
• 眉峰雙鎖 / 眉峰双锁
• 眾峰 / 众峰
• 石峰
• 神女峰
• 神峰
• 萬峰 / 万峰 (Wànfēng)
• 秀峰 (Xiùfēng)
• 紅峰 / 红峰 (Hóngfēng)
• 紫駝峰 / 紫驼峰
• 絕峰 / 绝峰
• 緱峰 / 缑峰
• 群峰
• 翠峰
• 聖母峰 / 圣母峰 (Shèngmǔ Fēng)
• 艮峰
• 華頂峰 / 华顶峰
• 蚪峰
• 衡峰
• 詞峰 / 词峰
• 躋峰造極 / 跻峰造极
• 迴樂峰 / 回乐峰
• 迴雁峰 / 回雁峰
• 連峰 / 连峰
• 造極登峰 / 造极登峰
• 逸峰
• 金峰 (Jīnfēng)
• 金峰路 (Jīnfēnglù)
• 鑪峰 / 𬬻峰
• 閭峰 / 闾峰
• 險峰 / 险峰
• 雁回峰
• 雁峰
• 雙峰駝 / 双峰驼 (shuāngfēngtuó)
• 離峰用電 / 离峰用电
• 雪峰
• 雲峰 / 云峰
• 雷峰
• 雷峰塔
• 雷峰夕照
• 霄峰
• 霜峰
• 霞峰
• 霧峰 / 雾峰 (Wùfēng)
• 霽峰 / 霁峰
• 靄峰 / 霭峰
• 靈峰 / 灵峰
• 青峰 (Qīngfēng)
• 頂峰 / 顶峰 (dǐngfēng)
• 顛峰 / 颠峰
• 飛來峰 / 飞来峰
• 香爐峰 / 香炉峰
• 香鑪峰 / 香𬬻峰
• 駝峰 / 驼峰 (tuófēng)
• 驪峰 / 骊峰
• 高峰 (gāofēng)
• 高峰會議 / 高峰会议 (gāofēng huìyì)
• 鵜峰 / 鹈峰
• 鶴峰 / 鹤峰 (Hèfēng)
• 鷲峰 / 鹫峰
• 鷲峰寺 / 鹫峰寺
• 鷲峰山脈 / 鹫峰山脉
• 鷹窠峰 / 鹰窠峰
• 鼇峰 / 鳌峰
• 鼻峰
• 龜峰 / 龟峰

 

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 峰

峰

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kun: みね (mine, 峰, Jōyō)、お (o, 峰)
• Nanori: たかし (takashi)、たかね (takane)、ほ (ho)、ぶ (bu)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
峰
お Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
丘

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Man'yōshū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞]

Noun

峰(お) • (o) ^{←を (wo)?}

1. (obsolete) a small place in the mountain
2. (obsolete) hill, hilltop
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 19, poem 4151:
     , text here

     今日(けふ)之(の)為(ため)等(と)思(おもひ)標(しめ)之(し)足(あし)引(ひき)乃(の)峯(をの)上(へ)之(の)櫻(さくら)如此(かく)開(さき)尓家里(にけり) [Man'yōgana]

     今(け)日(ふ)のためと思(おも)ひて標(しめ)しあしひきの峰(を)の上(へ)の桜(さくら)かく咲(さ)きにけり [Modern spelling]

     kyō no tame to omoite shimeshi ashihiki no onoe no sakura kaku saki ni keri

     For the sake of today's feast I thought and put up a sign. The cherry of the foot-dragging hill-tops has come to blossom thus.^[1]

3. (obsolete) peak, ridge

Derived terms

• 丘(おか), 岡(おか) (oka, “hill”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
峰
ね Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
峯 嶺

From Old Japanese. Used mainly in compounds.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ね [nè] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ne̞]

Noun

峰(ね) • (ne) 

1. summit of a mountain, peak
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3515:
     , text here

     阿我於毛乃(あがおもの)和須礼牟之太波(わすれむしだは)久尓波布利(くにはふり)祢(ね)尓多都久毛乎(にたつくもを)見都追之努波西(みつつしのはせ) [Man'yōgana]

     我(あ)が面(おも)の忘(わす)れむしだは国(くに)はふり嶺(ね)に立(た)つ雲(くも)を見(み)つつ偲(しの)はせ [Modern spelling]

     aga omo no wasuremu shida wa kuni wa furi ne ni tatsukumo o mitsutsu shinowase

     The moment you might forget my face, seeing the clouds overflowing the country and rising on the peaks, think of me!^[3]

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
峰
みね Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
峯 嶺

From 御(み) (mi, honorific prefix) + 峰(ね) (ne, “peak”),^[2] in reference to the 神 (kami, “god or spirit”) at the top of a mountain. Now the standard spelling for a peak.

Compare 道 (michi, “road”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みね [mìnéꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [mʲine̞]

Noun

峰(みね) • (mine) 

1. peak, ridge
   • 912, Kokin Wakashū, poem 365 (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 16)

     立(た)ち別(わか)れいなばの山(やま)の峰(みね)に生(お)ふるまつとし聞(き)かば今(いま)帰(かへ)り来(こ)む

     tachi-wakare Inaba-no-yama no mine ni ouru matsu to shi kikaba ima kaeri-kon

     Even if I depart and go to Inaba Mountain, on whose peak grow pines, if I hear you pine for me, I will return straightway to you.^[4]

   • 912, Kokin Wakashū, poem 776 (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 13)

     筑(つく)波(ば)嶺(ね)の峰(みね)より落(お)つるみなの川(がは)恋(こひ)ぞ積(つ)もりて淵(ふち)となりぬる

     Tsukuba-ne no mine yori otsuru Minano-gawa koi zo tsumorite fuchi to nari nuru

     Falling from the ridge of high Tsukuba, the Minano River at last gathers itself, like my love, into a deep, still pool.^[5]

2. (by extension) top or summit of something
3. back of a blade

Proper noun

峰(みね) • (Mine) 

1. A place name
2. a female given name
3. a surname

References

1. Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1963) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated Book XIX, Brill Archive, page 14
2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1958) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated Book XX, Brill Archive, page 74
4. Joshua S. Mostow (1996) Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 190
5. Kenneth Rexroth (1964) One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 103

Korean

Hanja

峰 • (bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune–Reischauer pong)

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Compounds

• 最高峰 (최고봉)

Vietnamese

Han character

峰: Hán Nôm readings: phong, phưng, phơng

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