Meaning & readings
wind, air, style, manner
Origin
This character depicts wind itself. The original picture showed something like a swirling motion or waves moving through air, capturing the invisible force that we recognize by its effects — how things blow, bend, and flow. Over time, the brushstrokes became more structured and stylized into the current form, but the basic idea remained: a visual representation of the movement and activity of wind. Because wind has a way of shaping and changing things wherever it reaches, the character's meaning expanded beyond just wind to include the broader sense of "style" or "manner" — the distinctive way something moves or appears.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (風).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 182
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #558 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+098A8