飞
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to fly
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 飞 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A bird flapping its wings
How to remember it
fly · Heisig RSH #96
fishhook + a drop of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 飞
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飞机 | airplane; CL:架[jia4] | |
| 无人飞行器 | drone; unmanned aerial vehicle | |
| 水上飞机 | seaplane | |
| 不明飞行物 | UFO (unidentified flying object) | |
| 空中飞人 | trapeze artist; frequent flyer | |
| 中国商用飞机 | COMAC (Chinese aeronautics company) | |
| 下飞机 | to get off a plane; to deplane | |
| 打飞机 | (slang) (of a male) to masturbate; to jerk off | |
| 外飞地 | enclave (foreign land inside us); (Tw) exclave (our land outside us) | |
| 飞行器 | flying craft (airplane, drone, missile, balloon, spacecraft, satellite etc) | |
| 水上飞板 | flyboard | |
| 中国商飞 | COMAC, Chinese aeronautics company (abbr. for 中國商用飛機|中国商用飞机[Zhong1 guo2 Shang1 yong4 Fei1 … | |
| 飞机场 | airport; (slang) flat chest; CL:處|处[chu4] | |
| 飞地 | enclave; exclave (territory belonging to one jurisdiction but entirely surrounded by anoth… | |
| 飞机失事 | plane crash | |
| 飞天 | flying Apsara (Buddhist art) | |
| 飞马 | at the gallop | |
| 内飞地 | exclave (our land inside them); (Tw) enclave (foreign land embedded in us) | |
| 飞行 | (of planes etc) to fly; flying; flight; aviation | |
| 飞安 | (Tw) aviation safety |