烽
Meanings
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- 1.beacon fire
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- 1.signal fire
- 2.the tower where such a signal fire is lit
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pʰoŋ): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 夆 (OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds).
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Related words
烽烟 fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)息烽 see 息烽县[Xī fēng Xiàn]烽火 fire beacon (to give alarm)烽燧 fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)息烽县 Xifeng, a county in Guiyang City 贵阳市[Guì yáng Shì], Guizhou烽烟四起 lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war烽火四起 the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war烽烟遍地 fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war