fēifěi

fragrant

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

非 sound component

  Sound component

fēi

  

not

Evolution

菲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fēi

fragrant, luxuriant; the Philippines; luxuriant (plant growth); rich with fragrance; phenanthrene C14H10

 

Fēi

abbr. for the Philippines 菲律賓|菲律宾[Fēi​lǜ​bīn]

 

fěi

poor; humble; unworthy; radish (old)

Most common words with 菲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

poor

菲律宾

the Philippines

王菲

Faye Wong (1969-), Hong Kong pop star and actress

不菲

considerable (cost etc)

苏菲

Sophie (name)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.1209% of movies

1067th most common character in movies

1418th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+83F2

Shuowen

“菲,芴也。从艸,非聲。”


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