What 奮 means
It means rousing yourself to exertion.
A form appears in an early Western Zhou bronze inscription. Traditional analysis links 奞, the upper part (a bird flapping its wings), with 田, “field”: a bird rising from a field. Associated senses include lifting, shaking, rousing, and bold effort.
In Chinese, 奮鬥 means striving or struggle; 奮發 means rousing oneself to act. In Japanese, 奮闘 is a hard struggle and 奮う means exerting oneself. The set phrase 奮ってご参加ください invites people to join actively. Here 奮 marks effort, not excitement alone.
Its tone is about exertion and resolve, not a passing mood.
Read it as effort or resolve, not excitement alone.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 奮 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- Also called
- 奋 · fèn · フン
- Search it as
- 奮 meaning · 奮闘 · 奮起 · 奮鬥 · 奮發
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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