烽火

Chinese

		beacon fire	fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
trad. (烽火)		烽	火
simp. ^#(烽火)		烽	火

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fēnghuǒ

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄥㄏㄨㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹ fo²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fûng-fó
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hong-hóⁿ / hong-hé / hong-hóe
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹fon-hu₅

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fēnghuǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄥㄏㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fonghuǒ
  - Wade–Giles: fêng¹-huo³
  - Yale: fēng-hwǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenghuoo
  - Palladius: фэнхо (fɛnxo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  - Homophones:
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    烽火
    風火 / 风火
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fung¹ fo²
  - Yale: fūng fó
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹ fo²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fung¹ fo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ fɔː³⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    烽火
    風火 / 风火
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fûng-fó
  - Hakka Romanization System: fung^ˊ fo^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fung¹ fo³
  - Sinological IPA: /fuŋ²⁴ fo³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-hóⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: hong-hónn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: honghvor
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hɔ̃⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³ hɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-hé
  - Tâi-lô: hong-hé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: honghea
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ he⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² he⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-hóe
  - Tâi-lô: hong-hué
  - Phofsit Daibuun: honghoea
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hue⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hue⁵³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹fon-hu₅
  - MiniDict: fon^平 hu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹fon-hu₂
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /foŋ⁵⁵ hu²¹/

Middle Chinese: phjowng xwaX

Rime
Character	烽	火
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	敷容切	呼果切
Baxter	phjowng	xwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨoŋ/	/huɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰioŋ/	/huɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰioŋ/	/xuɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuawŋ/	/hwa^X/
Li Rong	/pʰioŋ/	/xuɑ^X/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwoŋ/	/xuɑ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯woŋ/	/xuɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēng	huǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung¹	fo²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰoŋ qʰʷaːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	火
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ xwa^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[qʷʰ]ˁəjʔ/
English	fire
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	烽	火
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3228	5540
Phonetic component	丰	火
Rime group	東	歌
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	峯	火
Old Chinese	/*pʰoŋ/	/*qʰʷaːlʔ/

Noun

烽火

signal-fire used in ancient China to warn of an approaching enemy
- 烽火連三月，家書抵萬金 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  烽火连三月，家书抵万金 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Du Fu, Chunwang (春望) (trans. Paul Harris)
  fēnghuǒ lián sānyuè, jiāshū dǐ wàn jīn [Pinyin]
  For three months on end the garrison beacons have glimmered at night. A letter from home would be worth a heap of gold to me.
(figuratively) war; conflict

Derived terms

烽火輪 / 烽火轮

Japanese

Kanji in this term
烽	火
のろし
Hyōgai	Grade: 1
irregular

For pronunciation and definitions of 烽火 – see the following entry.

【狼煙のろし】

[noun] smoke signal, skyrocket, signal fire, beacon

Alternative spelling
狼烟

(This term, 烽火, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
烽	火

Noun

烽火 • (bonghwa) (hangeul 봉화)

hanja form^? of 봉화 (“signal fire”)

Chinese

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

See also

Japanese

Korean

Noun