fěi
graceful
Phonosemantic compound. 文 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 斐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
elegant | ||
Fiji (tropical volcanic island in southwest Pacific) | ||
Raphael | ||
brilliant | ||
Lafayette |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.0503% of movies
2693rd most common character in movies
2972nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6590 |
Shuowen | “斐，分別文也。从文，非聲。《易》曰：‘君子豹變，其文斐也。’” |
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