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Chinese symbol for “disputes”

风波
fēng bō
Traditional: 風波
disturbance; crisis; disputes; restlessness

The closest CC-CEDICT match for disputes is 风波 (fēng bō), defined as: disturbance; crisis; disputes; restlessness; 场 (cháng).

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Characters and stroke order

风 fēng
wind; air; customs, manners; news
radical 182 ⾵ · 4 strokes
波 bō
waves, ripples, breakers; undulations
radical 85 ⽔ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 风波.

WordPinyinMeaning
风险 (風險)fēng xiǎnrisk; hazard
风格 (風格)fēng géstyle
风暴 (風暴)fēng bàostorm; violent commotion
风景 (風景)fēng jǐngscenery; landscape
台风 (臺風)tái fēngstage presence, poise
波动 (波動)bō dòngto undulate; to fluctuate
波音bō yīnmordent (music)
波特bō tè(loanword) baud (computing); porter (beer)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.