肥
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fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
plump · Heisig RSH #2726
flesh + mosaic
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 肥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 合肥工业大学 | Hefei University of Technology | |
| 肥水不流外人田 | lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field; fig. keep the goodies with… | |
| 人无横财不富，马无夜草不肥 | (saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc)… | |
| 肥头大耳 | fat; plump; chubby | |
| 无机肥 | inorganic fertilizer | |
| 肥西县 | Feixi, a county in Hefei City 合肥市[He2 fei2 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 有机肥 | organic fertilizer | |
| 合肥市 | Hefei, prefecture-level city and capital of Anhui Province 安徽省[An1 hui1 Sheng3] | |
| 肥城市 | Feicheng, a county-level city in Tai'an City 泰安市[Tai4 an1 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 肥东县 | Feidong, a county in Hefei City 合肥市[He2 fei2 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 食言而肥 | lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom); fig. not to live up to one's promises | |
| 复合肥 | compound fertilizer | |
| 肥大 | (of clothes) baggy; loose; (of a person) fat; stout; (medicine) hypertrophy | |
| 化肥 | chemical fertilizer | |
| 花肥 | fertilizer for potted flowers; fertilizer used to promote flowering in crop plants | |
| 分肥 | to unfairly divide benefits, favoring a few | |
| 肥西 | see 肥西縣|肥西县[Fei2 xi1 Xian4] | |
| 面肥 | topdressing (agriculture) | |
| 面肥 | leaven; sourdough | |
| 肥力 | fertility (of soil) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 巴 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴 sound part | to desire, to wish for | |
| 把 | to grasp, to hold; to guard, to take; handle | |
| 爬 | to climb, to scramble; to crawl, to creep | |
| 吧 | emphatic final particle | |
| 芭 | a plantain or banana palm | |
| 爸 | father, papa | |
| 靶 | target, mark | |
| 耙 | to rake | |
| 疤 | scar, cicatrix; birthmark | |
| 琶 | a guitar-like instrument (2) | |
| 笆 | bamboo fence | |
| 杷 | loquat tree; axe handle | |
| 粑 | tsamba, flat rice cake | |
| 钯 | palladium | |
| 鲃 | shark; bonito | |
| 岜 | rocky mountain |