Chinese Character Wiki

匪

fěi

bandits

Components
匚 meaning component

匚  Meaning component

fāng

  

box

basket

非 sound component

非  Sound component

fēi

  

not

Evolution

匪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
匪 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
匪 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
匪 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
匪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

匪  

fěi

bandits, robbers, gangsters; bandit; (literary) not

Most common words with 匪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

匪

bandit

劫匪

bandit

绑匪

kidnapper

土匪

bandit

匪徒

gangster

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

榧 篚

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pəjʔ

pj+jX

fěi

bamboo basket

*pəjʔ

pj+jX

fěi

bandit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.0868% of movies

2066th most common character in movies

2201st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+532A

Shuowen

“匪，器。似竹筐。从匚，非聲。《逸周書》曰：‘實玄黃于匪。’”


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