腓
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calf of leg; decay; protect
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 肉 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 腓
- Common rank
- #3,351
- Unicode
- U+8153
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 腓
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腓利门书 | Epistle of St Paul to Philemon | |
| 腓立比书 | Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians | |
| 腓特烈斯塔 | Fredrikstad (city in Østfold, Norway) | |
| 腓尼基 | Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea | |
| 腓立比 | Philippi, ancient Macedonian city | |
| 腓力 | Philip, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus (Protestant transliteration) | |
| 腓肠肌 | calf muscle; gastrocnemius muscle | |
| 腓骨 | fibula; calf bone | |
| 腓肠 | calf (of the leg) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 非 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 非 sound part | not, negative, non-; to oppose | |
| 排 | row, rank, file; to eliminate, to remove | |
| 悲 | sorrow, sadness, grief; to be sorry | |
| 菲 | fragrant; rich, luxuriant; the Philippines | |
| 辈 | generation, lifetime; contemporary | |
| 啡 | coffee; morphine | |
| 匪 | bandits, robbers, gangsters | |
| 斐 | graceful, elegant, beautiful | |
| 蜚 | cockroach | |
| 翡 | kingfisher; jade, emerald | |
| 俳 | actor; vaudeville show; insincere | |
| 鲱 | herring | |
| 扉 | door panel | |
| 痱 | heat rash; prickly heat; ulcers | |
| 绯 | crimson, scarlet; purple | |
| 诽 | to condemn, to slander, to vilify | |
| 裴 | flowing gown; surname | |
| 悱 | overcome with emotion; at a loss for words | |
| 霏 | rainfall, snowfall |