Chinese Character Wiki

绯

fēi

scarlet

Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound. Simplified form of 緋.

Components
纟 meaning component

纟  Meaning component

mì, sī

  

silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

非 sound component

非  Sound component

fēi

  

not

Evolution

绯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
绯 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
绯 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

绯 (緋) 

fēi

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

Most common words with 绯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绯闻

sex scandal

绯

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

11

Traditional

緋

Unicode

U+7EEF


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