fenghuang
feng·huangnoun
fenghuang is a noun meaning “A phoenix found in Asian mythologies, which reigns over all other birds, often of female sex and frequently found paired with the Chinese dragon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-N-G-H-U-A-N-G and has 2 syllables (feng·huang), and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fenghuang is fenghuangs.
What does fenghuang mean?
noun
- 1
A phoenix found in Asian mythologies, which reigns over all other birds, often of female sex and frequently found paired with the Chinese dragon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fenghuang?
Fenghuang has 2 syllables, split feng·huang in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fenghuang
- fenghuangs plural
- feng-huang
- fung-hwang
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fenghuang?
Fenghuang appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fenghuang in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mythical creature:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fenghuang |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fenghuang come from?
Borrowed from Mandarin 鳳凰 /凤凰 (fènghuáng). Doublet of Fung-wong, hoo, and ho-o.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).