in English

fēng
point of a spear / edge of a tool / vanguard / forward (in sports team)

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鋒, the traditional character: 锋 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 这把刀很锋利。

    This knife is very sharp.

  • 这把刀的刀锋很利。

    The knife has a keen blade.

All example sentences with 锋

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