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封 — to confer; to grant

to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal

Pinyin
fēng · Fēng
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — fēng, Fēng — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 封: 9 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

封 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 封 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 封fēngto confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to sealHSK 3
  2. 信封xìnfēngenvelopeHSK 5
  3. 封闭fēngbìto close; to seal off; to close down; closedHSK 6
  4. 封顶fēngdǐngto put a roof; to cap the roofHSK 7–9
  5. 封建fēngjiànsystem of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudalHSK 7–9
  6. 封面fēngmiàncoverHSK 7–9
  7. 封锁fēngsuǒto blockade; to seal off; to lock downHSK 7–9
  8. 密封mìfēngto seal upHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.