fēi

scarlet

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

非 sound component

  Sound component

fēi

  

not

Evolution

緋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
緋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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fēi

scarlet, dark red, crimson; purple; dark red; purple silk

Most common words with 緋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绯闻

sex scandal

dark red

绯红

crimson

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5858% of movies

3028th most common character in movies

3862nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+7DCB

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“緋,帛赤色也。从糸,非聲。”


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