非
to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #304 U+975E
How 非 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Two bird's wings opposed; two people back-to-back
How to remember it
non- · Heisig RSH #1267
— as a component also called: jail cell
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 非 as their sound component
These characters all use 非 (fēi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 非 sound component | fēi | not, negative, non-; to oppose |
| 排 | pái | row, rank, file; to eliminate, to remove |
| 悲 | bēi | sorrow, sadness, grief; to be sorry |
| 菲 | fēi | fragrant; rich, luxuriant; the Philippines |
| 辈 | bèi | generation, lifetime; contemporary |
| 啡 | fēi | coffee; morphine |
| 匪 | fěi | bandits, robbers, gangsters |
| 斐 | fěi | graceful, elegant, beautiful |
| 腓 | féi | leg, calf; to wither, to decay |
| 蜚 | fēi | cockroach |
| 翡 | fěi | kingfisher; jade, emerald |
| 俳 | pái | actor; vaudeville show; insincere |
| 鲱 | fēi | herring |
| 扉 | fēi | door panel |
| 痱 | fèi | heat rash; prickly heat; ulcers |
| 绯 | fēi | crimson, scarlet; purple |
| 诽 | fěi | to condemn, to slander, to vilify |
| 裴 | péi | flowing gown; surname |
| 悱 | fěi | overcome with emotion; at a loss for words |
Words containing 非
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无事生非 | wú shì shēng fēi | to make trouble out of nothing |
| 非国家行为体 | fēi guó jiā xíng wéi tǐ | non-state actor |
| 非国大 | Fēi guó dà | African National Congress, ANC; abbr. for 非洲人國民大會|非洲人国民大会[Fei1 zhou1 ren2 guo2 min2 da4 hu… |
| 非动物性 | fēi dòng wù xìng | inanimacy |
| 非机动车 | fēi jī dòng chē | non-motorized vehicle |
| 非线性光学 | fēi xiàn xìng guāng xué | nonlinear optics (physics) |
| 非人化 | fēi rén huà | dehumanization |
| 亚非拉 | Yà Fēi Lā | Asia, Africa and Latin America |
| 非线性 | fēi xiàn xìng | nonlinear (math.) |
| 非利士人 | Fēi lì shì rén | the Philistines, who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century BC |
| 非军事区 | fēi jūn shì qū | demilitarized zone |
| 阿非利加 | Ā fēi lì jiā | Africa |
| 非利士地 | Fēi lì shì dì | Philistia, aka the Land of the Philistines |
| 非死不可 | Fēi sǐ bù kě | Facebook (Internet slang, pun reading "you must die") |
| 非同小可 | fēi tóng xiǎo kě | extremely important; no small matter |
| 非人 | fēi rén | inhuman; (literary) an unworthy person (to appoint, to marry etc) |
| 南非语 | Nán fēi yǔ | Afrikaans (language) |
| 中非 | Zhōng Fēi | China-Africa |
| 中非 | Zhōng fēi | Central Africa; Central African Republic (abbr. for 中非共和國|中非共和国[Zhong1 fei1 Gong4 he2 guo2… |
| 非斯 | Fēi sī | Fes (third largest city of Morocco) |