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沸

fèi

boil

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 弗 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

弗 sound component

弗  Sound component

fú

  

not

Evolution

沸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

沸  

fèi

boil, bubble up, gush; to boil

Most common words with 沸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沸腾

to flare up

沸沸扬扬

hubbubing

煮沸

to boil

沸

to boil

沸水

boiling water

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Nə.p[u][t]-s

pj+jH

fèi

boil (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6109% of movies

2866th most common character in movies

2698th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CB8

Shuowen

“沸，畢沸，濫泉。从水，弗聲。”


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