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绯

fēi

Character Traditional 緋

What 绯 means

1. dark red
2. purple silk

Words starting with 绯

• 绯闻fēi wénsex scandal
• 绯红fēi hóngcrimson; scarlet
• 绯胸鹦鹉fēi xiōng yīng wǔ(bird species of China) red-breasted parakeet (Psittacula alexandri)

Characters built on 非

These share the phonetic component 非 (fēi), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 菲fēiluxuriant (plant growth); rich with fragrance; phenanthrene C14H10
• 啡fēi(used in loanwords for its phonetic value)
• 悲bēisad; sadness; sorrow
• 斐fěiphonetic fei or fi; (literary) rich with literary elegance; phi (Greek letter Φ, φ)
• 辈bèilifetime; generation; group of people
• 诽fěislander
• 匪fěibandit; (literary) not
• 腓féicalf of leg; decay; protect

Characters that look like 绯

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 缔dì(archaic) to bind up inextricably; (bound form) to form an enduring union…
• 腓féicalf of leg; decay; protect
• 徘páiused in 徘徊
• 栩xǔused in 栩栩; jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)
• 缈miǎoused in 缥缈
• 绺liǔskein; tuft; lock

Sounds the same

Read fēi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 飞to fly
• 非to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-
• 啡(used in loanwords for its phonetic value)
• 菲luxuriant (plant growth); rich with fragrance; phenanthrene C14H10
• 妃imperial concubine
• 霏fall of snow
• 扉door with only one leaf
• 鲱Pacific herring
• 騑side horse (in a team of harnessed horses); horse
• 馡fragrant
• 䬠old variant of 霏