Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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非 fēi un-
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#328
Chapter-19 HSK-A
8 strokes
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Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Fei is supposed to resemble a pair of wings placed back to back; hence, to turn the back on, to negative. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
非
fēi
to not be/not/wrong/incorrect/non-/un-/in-/to reproach or blame/(colloquial) to insist on/simply must/abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
Phrases ending with the given character
惹rě
是shì
非fēi
to stir up trouble
李lǐ
格gé
非fēi
Li Gefei (active c. 1090), Northern Song writer and father of southern Song female poet Li Qingzhao 李清照
圣聖shèng
大大dà
非非fēi
Santa Fe