Kanji 風

音読おんよみ: フウ・フ

訓読くんよみ: かぜ・かざ

画数かくすう: 9 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: Self

Meaning

Wind — also means style, manner, or appearance.

  • 風景ふうけい — scenery / landscape
  • 台風たいふう — typhoon
  • 逆風ぎゃくふう — headwind / adverse situation
  • 微風びふう — breeze
  • 風邪かぜ — cold (illness)
  • 和風わふう — Japanese style
  • 洋風ようふう — Western style
  • 風速ふうそく — wind speed

The character originally showed a phoenix or divine bird inside a box — symbolizing divine wind. Over time, it came to represent both literal wind and figurative meanings like customs and styles.

かぜつよいています。
The wind is blowing strongly.

和風わふう部屋へやまりました。
I stayed in a Japanese-style room.

景
Creates
風景ふうけい — scenery / landscape
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