Wind

by Nao

kaze, kaza, fū, fu, bu

The character means wind. Kaze is a wind. Kyōfū is a strong wind. Wind force is fūryoku. Wind speed is fūsoku. Soku means speed. Gyakufū is an adverse wind or a headwind. Gyaku means opposite. Taifū is typhoon. Two characters sounding like typhoon were applied for the word.

Fū makes a lot of compounds and has some different meanings such as a style. Each meaning tells us it relates to atmosphere which is caused by wind. Yōfū means Western style. Wafū means Japanese style.

Fū also means scenery. As both fū and kō mean scenery, the compound fūkō is scenery, too. This word is particularly used for beautiful scenery.

Another meaning of fū is custom. Fūshū means customs. Shu means learned or acquired. Fūdo is culture. Fūzoku is popular culture. Zoku means popular.

Feng Shui is Fūsui. The characters suggest that fūsui observes the stream of wind and water that affects our universe.

Draw the outline of the character, first.

1. From the upper-left corner, draw the sweeping stroke.
2. Draw the hook from where you start to draw the first stroke. After changing the direction of the brush, draw the curve with an upward turn.
3. Draw the sweeping dot inside.
4. Draw the rectangle in the middle. Start from the left side of it.
5. Draw the right-angled hook.
6. Draw the lower side of the rectangle.
7. Draw the vertical stroke in the middle.
8. Draw the tilted stroke at the bottom. Draw it from the left to the right.
9. Draw the elongated dot.