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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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		非

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēi (fei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fei¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fui
• Min Nan (POJ): hui

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: fei¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fei
    • IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fei¹
    • Yale: fēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fei̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fui
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /fu̯i⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hui
    • Tâi-lô: hui
    • IPA (Taipei): /hui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (非, reconstructed)
Character (非), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 微 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 甫微切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pʉi/	/pwe̯i/	/piuəi/	/pʷɨi/	/puj/	/pĭwəi/	/piuəi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (非, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
非								fēi								‹ pjɨj ›								/*pəj/								is not
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
非					3076					非					微					1					猆					/*pɯl/

Definitions

1. not; non-
   • 非常 ("unusual")
   • 非法 ("illegal")
2. wrong; incorrect
   • 是非 ("right and wrong")
3. to reproach; to blame
4. (colloquial) used to insist on something. to have got to; to simply must

   • 不行，我非得走。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Bùxíng, wǒ fēi děi zǒu. [Pinyin]

     No, I must go.

5. Abbreviation of 非洲 (Africa).

Compounds

• 非常
• 非洲 (Africa)

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

非 (phi)

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