Chinese Character Wiki

肺

fèi

lungs

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

flesh

巿 sound component

巿  Sound component

fú

  

ceremonial knee coverings

Evolution

肺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
肺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

肺  

fèi

lungs; lung; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 肺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肺

lung

肺癌

lung cancer

肺炎

pneumonia

肺结核

TB

肺动脉

pulmonary artery

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰo[t]-s

phjojH

fèi

lung

*pʰˤ[a][t]-s

phajH

pèi

dense, luxuriant (sc. foliage)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 9.9952% of movies

1864th most common character in movies

2044th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+80BA

Shuowen

“肺，金藏也。从肉，巿聲。”


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