fèi
lungs
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰo[t]-s | phjojH | fèi | lung |
*pʰˤ[a][t]-s | phajH | pèi | dense, luxuriant (sc. foliage) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 9.9952% of movies
1864th most common character in movies
2044th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+80BA |
Shuowen | “肺,金藏也。从肉,巿聲。” |
Sources
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