fēi
door panel
Phonosemantic compound. 户 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pə[j] | pj+j | fēi | wooden door-leaf |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.8352% of movies
2795th most common character in movies
4034th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6249 |
Shuowen | “扉,戶扇也。从戶,非聲。” |
Sources
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