Chinese symbol for “kite”
风筝
fēng zheng
Traditional: 風箏
kite (lit. "wind zither", traditionally explained as being named after kites fitted with bamboo whistles that produced musical sounds when flown)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for kite is 风筝 (fēng zheng), defined as: kite (lit. "wind zither", traditionally explained as being named after kites fitted with bamboo whistles that produced musical sounds when flown).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “kite”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 风筝.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 风险 (風險) | fēng xiǎn | risk; hazard |
| 风格 (風格) | fēng gé | style |
| 风暴 (風暴) | fēng bào | storm; violent commotion |
| 风景 (風景) | fēng jǐng | scenery; landscape |
| 台风 (臺風) | tái fēng | stage presence, poise |
| 古筝 (古箏) | gǔ zhēng | guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 (gǔ qín) during Tang and Song times) |
| 放风筝 (放風箏) | fàng fēng zheng | to fly a kite |
| 断线风筝 (斷線風箏) | duàn xiàn fēng zhēng | a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “kite”.
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.