飛

See also: 飞

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): looks like a bird flying upwards.

In modern form, resembles a tasseled 升.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

飛 (radical 183 飛+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓人竹廿人 (NOHTO), four-corner 1241₃)

1. fly
2. go quickly
3. dart
4. high

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/飛
• 騛, 𩙺

References

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

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Chinese

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trad.		飛
simp.		飞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēi (fei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fei¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fui
• Min Nan (POJ): pue / pe / hue / 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: pue / pe / hue / hui
    • Tâi-lô: pue / pe / hue / hui
    • IPA (Taipei): /pue⁴⁴/, /pe⁴⁴/, /hue⁴⁴/, /hui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pue³⁴/, /pe³⁴/, /hue³⁴/, /hui³⁴/
  • Note: pue, pe, hue - vernacular, hui - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (飛, reconstructed)
Character (飛), 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 (飛, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
飛								fēi								‹ pjɨj ›								/*Cə.pə[r] (dialect: *-r > *-j)/								fly (v.)
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
飛					3115					飛					微					1					猆					/*pɯl/

Compounds

• 飛彈
• 飛機

References

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

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Japanese

Noun

飛 (hiragana ひ, romaji hi)

• (abbreviation of 飛車, "hisha")

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Kanji

飛

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to fly
2. rook (as used in Shogi, or Japanese chess)

Readings

• On: ひ (hi)
• Kun: とぶ (飛ぶ, tobu), とばす (飛ばす, tobasu)
• Nanori: あす (asu), とび (tobi)

Compounds

• 飛行 (hikō): aviation
• 飛行機 (hikōki): airplane, aircraft
• 飛行場 (hikōjō): airfield, airport
• 飛来 (hirai): come flying
• 飛鳥 (hichō): flying bird
• 雄飛 (yūhi): launching out
• 飛球 (hikyū): fly ball
• 犠飛 (gihi): sacrifice fly
• 飛躍 (hiyaku): leaping, activity

• 突飛 (toppi): erratic, offbeat
• 飛び上がる (tobiagaru): spring, jump up
• 飛び込む (tobikomu): jump in
• 飛び切り (tobikiri): extraordinary, superior
• 飛び魚 (tobiuo): flying fish
• 飛び子 (とびこ, tobiko): flying fish roe
• 飛び移る (tobiutsuru): jump from one thing to another
• 鳩を飛ばす (hato o tobasu): fly a pigeon
• 檄を飛ばす (geki o tobasu): issue a manifesto
• 叱り飛ばす (shikaritobasu): rebuke strongly

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

飛 (phi )

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