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飛

飛

See also: 飞

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese
stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #183, ⾶ ‎(“fly”).

Descendants

  • Index:Chinese radical/飛
  • 騛, 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. 飛
simp. 飞

Glyph origin

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

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

In modern form, resembles a tasseled 升 (shēng).

Etymology

Area word:

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 飛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 甫微切
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 飛
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 飛
Reading # 1/1
No. 3115
Phonetic
component		 飛
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 猆
Old
Chinese		 /*pɯl/

Definitions

飛

  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

飛 ‎(hiragana ひ, romaji hi)

  • (abbreviation of 飛車, "hisha")
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Kanji

飛

(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

飛 • ‎(bi) (hangeul 비, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

飛 (phi)

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