feng

See also: Feng, féng, fèng, fēng, and fěng

English

Etymology 1

Noun

feng (plural fengs)

1. (linguistics) The Latin-script letter ʩ, used to transcribe a voiceless velopharyngeal fricative in the context of disordered speech.

Etymology 2

Noun

feng (plural fengs)

1. Alternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”)
   • 2012 May, Hui-Chih Yu [于惠之], “The Cross-cultural Symbolism of Birds - An Approach to Arousing Students' Interest in Learning English [論不同文化中鳥的象徵意義 — 激發學生學習英語興趣之途徑]”, in STUST Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences [南台人文社會學報]‎^[1], number 7, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2023, page 157:

     In China, the phoenix is known as the Feng-huang; in its "feng" aspect it is a male, solar sybol, while as "huang", it is a female and lunar, making it an embodiment of the union of yin and yang.

   • 2013, Traci Harding, “The Rite of Gao Mei”, in Dreaming of Zhou Gong‎^[2], HarperVoyager, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 363:

     One of them would be chosen by the ancient chimera bird, Feng-Huang, which resided atop of the mighty Kunlun mountain range of which Bayan Har Shan formed part. These mountains, which Ji Shi had reportedly sprung from, seemed to be a hotbed of supernatural activity. The legendary bird had a male aspect, Feng, and a female aspect, Huang, and presided over every other bird in the land ... it was known to have the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish. Feng-Huang would only appear in the most harmonious and joyous of situations. Its coming always heralded the beginning of a new era of imperial rule, and bestowed the perfect balance of yin and yang upon heaven’s mandate.

Related terms

• fenghuang

See also

• feng shui (etymologically unrelated)
• feng-huang (etymologically unrelated)
• Hai-feng (etymologically unrelated)

Mandarin

Romanization

feng

1. Nonstandard spelling of fēng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of féng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of fěng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of fèng.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Old English

Verb

fēng

1. preterite of fōn

   Her feng Tiberius to rice

   Here Tiberius took the kingdom.