奋
奮fèn
#1,266 most
frequent character
to exert oneself (bound form)
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
奋 once showed a bird over 田, a field; 大 here was once a drawing of clothes and is now an empty part, and the bird was left out of the simplified form. It first meant a bird beating its wings to fly. The meaning grew to struggling and putting in effort, then to being stirred up.
Drawn as: bird; field; clothes
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