féi
fat
Depicts a person (卩) with extra flesh (肉) on their body.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
féi
fat, plump, obese; fertile; fat; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b][ə]r | bj+j | féi | fat (adj.) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 18.7730% of movies
1423rd most common character in movies
1620th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+80A5 |
Shuowen | “肥，多肉也。从肉，从卪。” |
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