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非

非

See also: 韭, 兆, and 北

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #175, ⾮ ‎(“wrong”).

Derived characters

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 非

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 非
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (非) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
啡 *pʰɯːlʔ
排 *brɯːl
俳 *brɯːl
輫 *brɯːl, *buːl
悲 *prɯl
棑 *breː, *brɯːls
輩 *puːls
裴 *buːl, *bɯl
徘 *buːl
琲 *buːlʔ
痱 *buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
非 *pɯl
扉 *pɯl
緋 *pɯl
猆 *pɯl
斐 *pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
馡 *pɯl
騑 *pɯl, *pʰɯl
誹 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
餥 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ
匪 *pɯlʔ
棐 *pɯlʔ
蜚 *pɯlʔ, *bɯls
篚 *pɯlʔ
榧 *pɯlʔ
鯡 *pɯls
霏 *pʰɯl
菲 *pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
婔 *pʰɯl
裶 *pʰɯl
悱 *pʰɯlʔ
奜 *pʰɯlʔ
腓 *bɯl, *bɯls
陫 *bɯlʔ
屝 *bɯls
厞 *bɯls
翡 *bɯls

Etymology

非 (OC *pɯj) is the fusion of the negation particle 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “not”) and the copula 惟 (OC *ɢʷi, “to be”), attested in oracle bone inscriptions.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 非
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 甫微切
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 非
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fēi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjɨj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pəj/
English 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 非
Reading # 1/1
No. 3076
Phonetic
component		 非
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 猆
Old
Chinese		 /*pɯl/

Definitions

非

  1. not be; is not; not
    • 非常  ―  fēicháng  ―  unusual
    • 非法  ―  fēifǎ  ―  illegal
  2. wrong; incorrect
    • 是非  ―  shìfēi  ―  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。  ―  Bùxíng, wǒ fēi děi zǒu.  ―  No, I must go.
  5. Short for 非洲 (Fēizhōu, “Africa”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

非

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Prefix

非 ‎(hiragana ひ, romaji hi-)

  1. in-, non-, un-

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

非 (phi)

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