风暴 fēngbào▶ Tormenta

Stroke order

风暴 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

• 风 — 4 strokes
• 暴 — 15 strokes

Senses

1. storm
2. violent commotion
3. fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)

Related words

• 作风estilo
• 台风Tifón
• 威风Prestigio
• 暴力violencia
• 暴露Exponer
• 风光Paisaje

风暴 is pronounced fēngbào and means “Tormenta”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 风暴 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.