非

See also 韭

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

非 (radical 175 非+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 中一尸卜 (LMSY), 中一卜卜卜 (LMYYY), four-corner 1111₁)

Etymology

From the fusion of the negated copula *pjə-wjij 不惟 (not-is), attested in oracle bone inscriptions, forming *pjəj 非.

1. not, negative, non-
2. oppose

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/非
• 俳 排 輩 (辈)

See also

• 韭 兆 北

References

• KangXi: page 1382, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42585
• Dae Jaweon: page 1894, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4086, character 1
• Unihan data for U+975E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

非 (Yale fei1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

非 (POJ fui, Guangdong fui¹; fi¹, fwi¹ [Meixian], fi¹ [Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim fi1, fui1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

非 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ひ (hi)
• Kun: それる (soreru), あらず (arazu)

Prefix

非 (hiragana ひ, romaji hi-)

1. in-, non-, un-

Compounds

• 非情 (ひじょう, hijō): heartlessness

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Korean

Hanja

非 (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

非 (pinyin fēi (fei1), Wade-Giles fei¹)

Compounds

• 非常
• 非洲 (Africa)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

非 (*biəi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

非 (phi)