fěi
kingfisher
Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4135th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+7FE1 |
Shuowen | “翡,赤羽雀也。出鬱林。从羽,非聲。” |
Sources
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