菲
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luxuriant (plant growth); rich with fragrance; phenanthrene C14H10
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艸 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 菲
- Common rank
- #1,361
- Unicode
- U+83F2
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
humble · Heisig RSH #2632
flower + jail cell
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 菲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斯普林菲尔德 | Springfield | |
| 费拉德尔菲亚 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; abbr. to 費城|费城[Fei4 cheng2] | |
| 菲力克斯 | Felix (name) | |
| 菲尼克斯 | Phoenix, capital of Arizona; also 鳳凰城|凤凰城[Feng4 huang2 cheng2] | |
| 菲尔普斯 | Phelps (name); Michael Phelps (1985-), US swimmer and multiple Olympic gold medallist | |
| 普罗科菲夫 | Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian composer | |
| 雪菲尔德 | Sheffield (City in England) | |
| 菲尔特 | Fürth (city in Germany) | |
| 菲德尔 | Fidel (name) | |
| 菲亚特 | Fiat | |
| 拉菲草 | raffia (loanword) | |
| 齐格菲防线 | Siegfried Line, line of German military defenses during WWI and WWII | |
| 菲力牛排 | fillet steak | |
| 菲利普 | (name) Philip | |
| 埃菲尔铁塔 | Eiffel Tower | |
| 艾菲尔铁塔 | (Tw) Eiffel Tower | |
| 额菲尔士 | Everest (name); Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India … | |
| 洛克菲勒 | Rockefeller | |
| 菲律宾大学 | University of the Philippines | |
| 索菲亚 | Sofia (capital of Bulgaria) |
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 | |
| 辈 | generation, lifetime; contemporary | |
| 啡 | coffee; morphine | |
| 匪 | bandits, robbers, gangsters | |
| 斐 | graceful, elegant, beautiful | |
| 腓 | leg, calf; to wither, to decay | |
| 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 |