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Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese
stroke order

Han character

(radical 183 飛+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓人竹廿人 (NOHTO), four-corner 12413, composition ⿻𠃧⿰)

  1. Kangxi radical #183, (fly).

Descendants

  • Index:Chinese radical/飛
  • , 𩙺

References

  • KangXi: page 1415, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44000
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1938, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4513, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+98DB

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pɯl
*pɯl

Pictogram (象形) : looks like a bird flying upwards.

In modern form, resembles a tasseled (shēng).

Etymology

Area word:

Cognate with (OC *pɯn, “appearance of birds flying slowly”), 𦐈 (“fly, soar”), (OC *pɯns, “spread wings and fly”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fēi
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjɨj ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.pə[r]/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)
English fly (v.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3115
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pɯl/

Definitions

  1. to fly
  2. to move in the sky; to hover, to flutter, to dart
  3. to disappear
  4. fast; rapid; swiftly
  5. very; extremely
  6. groundless; unfounded
  7. unexpected; accidental
  8. flying; suspending

Compounds


Japanese

Noun

(hiragana , romaji hi)

  • (abbreviation of 飛車, "hisha")
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Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to fly
  2. rook (as used in Shogi, or Japanese chess)

Readings

Compounds

  • 飛行 (hikō): aviation
  • 飛行機 (hikōki): airplane, aircraft
  • 飛行場 (hikōjō): airfield, airport
  • 飛来 (hirai): come flying
  • 飛鳥 (hichō): flying bird
  • 雄飛 (yūhi): launching out
  • 飛球 (hikyū): fly ball
  • 犠飛 (gihi): sacrifice fly
  • 飛躍 (hiyaku): leaping, activity
  • 突飛 (toppi): erratic, offbeat
  • 飛び上がる (tobiagaru): spring, jump up
  • 飛び込む (tobikomu): jump in
  • 飛び切り (tobikiri): extraordinary, superior
  • 飛び魚 (tobiuo): flying fish
  • 飛び子 (とびこ, tobiko): flying fish roe
  • 飛び移る (tobiutsuru): jump from one thing to another
  • 鳩を飛ばす (hato o tobasu): fly a pigeon
  • 檄を飛ばす (geki o tobasu): issue a manifesto
  • 叱り飛ばす (shikaritobasu): rebuke strongly

Korean

Hanja

(bi) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phi)

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