The flow of currency that has existed between wind – 风 and phoenix – 凤 in Chinese language offers clarity for the intimacy between a host of beings', namely sound, feeling, kinship, and language. The phoenix's arrival gives kindred form to the relational embodiment that lies in the experience of sensing wind through sound, a debt of emotions is then paid through a phonetic loan. A sacredness passes to raise a collective in movement, and the reverence persists to belong to the winged.