fēi
fly
Pictograph of a flying bird.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 飛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to fly | ||
airplane | ||
flying | ||
airship | ||
(of an aircraft) to take off |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.pə[r] (dialect: *-r > *-j) | pj+j | fēi | fly (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 56.8957% of movies
439th most common character in movies
347th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+98DB |
Shuowen | “飛，鳥翥也。象形。” |
Sources
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