星圖

The 非 family

非 · fēi · ㄈㄟ — not

Know 非 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 菲、啡、輩、悲、匪、緋. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.

非 fēi · not非菲 fēi · sound from 非 · 89%菲啡 fēi · sound from 非 · 89%啡輩 bèi · sound from 非 · 67%輩悲 bēi · sound from 非 · 67%悲匪 fěi · sound from 非 · 80%匪緋 fēi · sound from 非 · 89%緋非常 fēicháng · very非常除非 chúfēi · only if (..., or otherwise,...)除非並非 bìngfēi · really isn't並非非洲 fēizhōu · Africa非洲非法 fēifǎ · illegal非法非得 fēiděi · (followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must非得非要 fēiyào · to want absolutely非要非凡 fēifán · out of the ordinary非凡是非 shìfēi · right and wrong是非南非 nánfēi · South Africa南非非人 fēirén · inhuman非人莫非 mòfēi · can it be possible that莫非絕非 juéfēi · absolutely not絕非非洲人 fēizhōurén · African (person)非洲人

The characters

One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.

The percentage is our computed confidence that 非 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 非 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 80%.

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