fēi
not
Depicts two people facing opposite directions.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pəj | pj+j | fēi | is not |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 94.0734% of movies
209th most common character in movies
283rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+975E |
Shuowen | “非,違也。从飛下翄,取其相背。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.824-825
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