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風 — how to write the kanji for “wind”

風 means “wind”, “air” and “style”; it is a JLPT N4 kanji, taught in second grade in Japan. As one of the 214 traditional radicals it heads 26 kanji in KANJIDIC2. On its own it is the word kaze, “wind; breeze”. Read fuu, it forms 台風 (“typhoon”), 風景 (“scenery”) and 風土 (“natural features”); the native reading kaze gives 風邪 (“(common) cold”) and 追い風 (“tailwind”). Mainland Chinese writes it 风 (fēng, “wind”), an HSK 3 character.

Strokes
9
JLPT
N4
Radical
風 (“wind”)
On
フウ, フ
Kun
かぜ, かざ-

Stroke by stroke

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9

Its parts sit one inside another: 几 (“table”), strokes 1–2; 虫 (“insect”), strokes 4–9, each finished before the next.

  1. Left-falling stroke ㇒top leftdownwards
  2. Horizontal-turn-curve-hook ㇈top leftrightwards → downwards
  3. Left-falling stroke ㇒topdown and left
  4. Vertical ㇑leftdownwards
  5. Horizontal-turn ㇕leftrightwards → downwards
  6. Horizontal ㇐leftrightwards
  7. Vertical ㇑topdownwards
  8. Rising stroke ㇀bottom leftrightwards
  9. Dot ㇔centerdown and right

Japanese and Chinese

The two models differ in shape, so our comparison does not claim an order; compare the numbered frames yourself (9 strokes in Japanese, 9 strokes in Chinese).

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Japanese · KanjiVG · 9 strokes
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Chinese · Make Me a Hanzi · 9 strokes

Trace it

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Readings

On (Chinese-derived)
フウ fuu, フ fu
Kun (native)
かぜ kaze, かざ- kaza-
Meanings
wind; air; style; manner
Read fuu
台風 風景 風土 風潮 風速 強風
Read kaze
風邪 追い風
School year
second grade
Newspaper rank
558th of 2,500 (KANJIDIC2)
Korean hanja
풍 pung
Common words
59 in JMdict

On and kun, explained

Words with 風

WordReadingMeaning
台風たいふう taifuutyphoon; hurricane
風景ふうけい fuukeiscenery; scene
風土ふうど fuudonatural features; topography
風潮ふうちょう fuuchoutide; current
風速ふうそく fuusokuwind speed
風邪かぜ kaze(common) cold; influenza
追い風おいかぜ oikazetailwind; fair wind
強風きょうふう kyoufuustrong wind; high wind
風俗ふうぞく fuuzokumanners; customs
逆風ぎゃくふう gyakufuuheadwind; adverse wind

Most common first (JMdict).

Practice sheet

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Keep going

Same parts:

JLPT N4, in list order: