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See also:
U+98DB, 飛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98DB

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2FB6, ⾶
KANGXI RADICAL FLY

Kangxi Radicals

Translingual

Stroke order
(Chinese)
Stroke order
(Japan)

Han character

(Kangxi radical 183, +0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓人竹廿人 (NOHTO), four-corner 12413, composition 𠃧⿰⿱丿丿)

  1. Kangxi radical #183, .

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1415, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44000
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1938, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4513, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+98DB

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms
Wikipedia has an article on:
  • (Cantonese)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : a bird flying upwards.

In its modern form, resembles a tasseled (shēng).

Etymology

Cognate with Old Chinese (*pɯn, appearance of birds flying slowly) and Old Chinese (*pɯns, spread wings and fly).

“fare”
From English fare. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
“femto-”
Borrowed from English femto-.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • pî/bi1 - vernacular;
  • fî/fi1 - literary.
Note:
  • ṳě - colloquial;
  • hí - literary.
Note:
  • buŏi - colloquial;
  • hĭ - literary.
Note:
  • bue1 - vernacular;
  • hi1 - literary.
Note:
Note:
  • buê1 - vernacular;
  • hui1 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter pj+j
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʉi/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʷɨi/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuəi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puj/
Li
Rong
/piuəi/
Wang
Li
/pĭwəi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pwe̯i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fēi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fei1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fēi
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjɨj ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.pə/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)
English fly (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3115
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pɯl/

Definitions

  1. (intransitive, of insects, birds, etc.) to fly
  2. (intransitive) to fly (on an aircraft)
    聽日听日 [Cantonese]  ―  ngo5 ting1 jat6 fei1.   ―  I am flying tomorrow.
  3. (transitive) to fly (on an aircraft) to
    明天臺北明天台北  ―  Wǒ míngtiān fēi Táiběi.  ―  I am flying to Taipei tomorrow.
  4. to float in the sky; to hover
    漫天漫天  ―  màntiān fēi xuě  ―  it’s snowing all over
    六月六月  ―  liùyuè fēi shuāng  ―  it’s frosting throughout June
  5. to volatilize
  6. fast; rapid; swiftly
      ―  fēibēn  ―  to dash
      ―  fēizhàng  ―  to soar
  7. very; extremely
  8. groundless; unfounded
    流言流言  ―  liúyánfēi  ―  rumor and slander; gossip
  9. unexpected; accidental
      ―  fēihuò  ―  unexpected disaster
  10. (Cantonese) to remove
  11. (Cantonese) to skip; to disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation
    見到題目 [Cantonese, trad.]
    见到题目 [Cantonese, simp.]
    haau2 go2 zan6, gin3 dou3-2 jau5 tai4 muk6 m4 sik1 zou6 zau6 fei1 zo2 keoi5.
    In the exam, when you see questions that you don't know, skip them.
  12. (Cantonese) to dump; to end a romantic relationship with
    啱啱 [Cantonese, trad.]
    啱啱 [Cantonese, simp.]
    ngaam1 ngaam1 ngo5 bei2 ngo5 tiu4 neoi5 fei1 zo2.
    I just got dumped by my girlfriend.
  13. (Cantonese) ticket; fare (Classifier: c)
    [Cantonese]  ―  ce1 fei1   ―  bus or train ticket
    [Cantonese]  ―  hei3 fei1   ―  movie ticket
    [Cantonese, trad.]
    [Cantonese, simp.]
    nei5 maai5 zo2 fei1 mei6?
    Have you bought a ticket?
  14. (Cantonese) Classifier for cigarettes.
  15. (mahjong) Classifier for number of possible winning tiles.
  16. (Cantonese, by extension) Classifier for number of possible choices.
  17. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to fizzle out; to fail; to fall through
  18. femto- (SI unit prefix)

Synonyms

Compounds

See also

SI prefix
Last Next
()

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: () (hi)
  • Korean: 비(飛) (bi)
  • Vietnamese: phi ()

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: (hi, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: (hi, Jōyō)
  • Kun: とぶ (tobu, 飛ぶ, Jōyō)とばす (tobasu, 飛ばす, Jōyō)
  • Nanori: たか (taka)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC pj+j).

Affix

() (hi

  1. fly, flying
  2. flight
  3. overhead
  4. high
  5. fast, rapid, swift
  6. Short for 飛騨 (Hida-no-kuni): Hida Province

Derived terms

Noun

() (hi

  1. (shogi) Abbreviation of 飛車 (hisha): a flying chariot piece, with movement corresponding to the rook in Western chess
  2. (baseball) Short for 飛球 (hikyū): a fly ball

Derived terms

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC pj+j). Recorded as Middle Korean (pi) (Yale: pi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (nal bi))

  1. hanja form? of (to fly)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: phi, bay

  1. chữ Hán form of phi (gallop; plane).
  2. Nôm form of bay (to fly high).

Compounds