féi

calf

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

非 sound component

  Sound component

fēi

  

not

Evolution

腓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

féi

calf; avoid; be ill; wither; calf of leg; decay; protect

Most common words with 腓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

decay

腓骨

fibula

腓肠肌

calf muscle

腓肠

calf (of the leg)

腓尼基

Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.5606% of movies

3157th most common character in movies

3543rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8153

Shuowen

“腓,脛腨也。从肉,非聲。”


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