菲 · fēi
fragrant, luxuriant; the Philippines
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
fragrant, luxuriant; the Philippines
- Mandarin
- fēi
- Cantonese
- fei2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 菲 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 비
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+83F2
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 菲
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 非 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 非聲
Line 17700 · ⿱艹非 · 非聲 · source reference 0124000
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- phjɨj · 芳非 反切 · #214
- Middle Chinese
- phjɨjX · 敷尾 反切 · #1315
- Middle Chinese
- bjɨjH · 扶沸 反切 · #2284
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1802 · phjɨj = 止合三平微滂 · phjɨjX = 止合三上微滂 · bjɨjH = 止合三去微並
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- fēi
- kCantonese
- fei2
- kDefinition
- fragrant, luxuriant; the Philippines
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 140.8
- kTGH
- 2013:2202
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- fěi,fèi,fēi 53232.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- fēi 0313.030 · fěi 0315.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- fēi 094.050 · fěi 095.060
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- fēi粵fei1 fěi粵fei2
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 芳非 敷尾 扶沸
- Kangxi positions
- 1039.220
- Guangyun positions
- 064.18 255.09 360.22
- GSR references
- 0579l
- Cangjie
- TLMY
- Four-corner
- 4411.1