菲 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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fēi, fěi

fragrant

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

非 Sound component

fēi

not

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

菲

fēi

fragrant, luxuriant; the Philippines; luxuriant (plant growth); rich with fragrance; phenanthrene C14H10

菲

Fēi

abbr. for the Philippines 菲律賓|菲律宾[Fēilǜbīn]

菲

fěi

poor; humble; unworthy; radish (old)

Most common words with 菲

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	菲	poor
	菲律宾	the Philippines
	王菲	Faye Wong (1969-), Hong Kong pop star and actress
	不菲	considerable (cost etc)
	苏菲	Sophie (name)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.1209% of movies

1067th most common character in movies

1418th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	11
Unicode	U+83F2
Shuowen	“菲，芴也。从艸，非聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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