肥
fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure
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Dict coverage rank #934 U+80A5
How 肥 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ (semantic, “flesh”) + 巴 (phonetic, bā)
How to remember it
plump · Heisig RSH #2726
flesh + mosaic
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 巴
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 巴 (bā) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴 sound component | bā | to desire, to wish for |
| 把 | bǎ | to grasp, to hold; to guard, to take; handle |
| 爬 | pá | to climb, to scramble; to crawl, to creep |
| 吧 | ba | emphatic final particle |
| 芭 | bā | a plantain or banana palm |
| 爸 | bà | father, papa |
| 靶 | bǎ | target, mark |
| 耙 | pá | to rake |
| 疤 | bā | scar, cicatrix; birthmark |
| 琶 | pá | a guitar-like instrument (2) |
| 笆 | bā | bamboo fence |
| 杷 | bà | loquat tree; axe handle |
| 粑 | bā | tsamba, flat rice cake |
| 钯 | bǎ | palladium |
| 鲃 | bā | shark; bonito |
| 岜 | bā | rocky mountain |
Words containing 肥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 合肥工业大学 | Hé féi Gōng yè Dà xué | Hefei University of Technology |
| 肥水不流外人田 | féi shuǐ bù liú wài rén tián | lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field; fig. keep the goodies with… |
| 人无横财不富，马无夜草不肥 | rén wú hèng cái bù fù , mǎ wú yè cǎo bù féi | (saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc)… |
| 肥头大耳 | féi tóu dà ěr | fat; plump; chubby |
| 无机肥 | wú jī féi | inorganic fertilizer |
| 肥西县 | Féi xī Xiàn | Feixi, a county in Hefei City 合肥市[He2 fei2 Shi4], Anhui |
| 有机肥 | yǒu jī féi | organic fertilizer |
| 合肥市 | Hé féi Shì | Hefei, prefecture-level city and capital of Anhui Province 安徽省[An1 hui1 Sheng3] |
| 肥城市 | Féi chéng Shì | Feicheng, a county-level city in Tai'an City 泰安市[Tai4 an1 Shi4], Shandong |
| 肥东县 | Féi dōng Xiàn | Feidong, a county in Hefei City 合肥市[He2 fei2 Shi4], Anhui |
| 食言而肥 | shí yán ér féi | lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom); fig. not to live up to one's promises |
| 复合肥 | fù hé féi | compound fertilizer |
| 肥大 | féi dà | (of clothes) baggy; loose; (of a person) fat; stout; (medicine) hypertrophy |
| 化肥 | huà féi | chemical fertilizer |
| 花肥 | huā féi | fertilizer for potted flowers; fertilizer used to promote flowering in crop plants |
| 分肥 | fēn féi | to unfairly divide benefits, favoring a few |
| 肥西 | Féi xī | see 肥西縣|肥西县[Fei2 xi1 Xian4] |
| 面肥 | miàn féi | topdressing (agriculture) |
| 面肥 | miàn féi | leaven; sourdough |
| 肥力 | féi lì | fertility (of soil) |