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飞

fēi

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 character level 1 Character Traditional 飛

飞 (fēi) means "to fly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 飞 means

1. to fly

Example sentences

• 我不飞
  I don't fly.
• 跑得飞快
  Pǎo de fēikuài
  Run very fast.
• 鸟能飞。
  A bird can fly.
• 鸟会飞。
  A bird can fly.
• 飞机快来了
  Fēijī kuài lái le
  The plane is arriving.
• 时间飞逝。
  Shíjiān fēishì.
  Time flies.

Words starting with 飞

• 飞机fēi jīairplane
• 飞翔fēi xiángto circle in the air; to soar
• 飞跃fēi yuèto leap
• 飞禽走兽fēi qín zǒu shòu(idiom) birds and animals
• 飞行fēi xíng(of planes etc) to fly; flying; flight
• 飞快fēi kuàivery fast; at lightning speed; (colloquial) razor-sharp
• 飞扬fēi yángto rise; to fly upward
• 飞船fēi chuánspaceship; spacecraft; dirigible
• 飞舞fēi wǔto flutter; to dance in the breeze
• 飞行员fēi xíng yuánpilot; aviator
• 飞奔fēi bēnto dash (run fast); to rush; to dart
• 飞过fēi guòto fly over; to fly past
• 飞速fēi sùswift; rapidly
• 飞出fēi chūto fly out
• 飞鸟fēi niǎobird
• 飞驰fēi chíto speed; to rush
• 飞天fēi tiānflying Apsara (Buddhist art)
• 飞利浦Fēi lì pǔPhilips (company)
• 飞龙fēi lóngdragon in flight; (fig.) (literary) person at the height of success
• 飞车fēi chēfast-moving vehicle; to drive or ride a vehicle at high speed
• 飞越fēi yuèto fly across; to fly over; to fly past
• 飞机场fēi jī chǎngairport; (slang) flat chest
• 飞来飞去fēi lái fēi qùto fly about; to fly hither and thither; to flit
• 飞机票fēi jī piàoair ticket

Words containing 飞

• 起飞qǐ fēi(of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off…
• 高飞gāo fēito soar
• 岳飞Yuè FēiYue Fei (1103-1142), Song dynasty patriot and general
• 腾飞téng fēilit. to fly upwards swiftly; fig. rapid advance; rapidly developing (situation)
• 张飞Zhāng FēiZhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three…
• 纷飞fēn fēito swirl in the air (of thickly falling snowflakes, flower petals etc); to flutter about
• 放飞fàng fēito allow to fly
• 眉飞色舞méi fēi sè wǔsmiles of exultation; radiant with delight
• 突飞猛进tū fēi měng jìnto advance by leaps and bounds
• 不翼而飞bù yì ér fēito disappear without trace; to vanish all of a sudden; to spread fast
• 满天飞mǎn tiān fēito rush around everywhere; always active
• 航天飞机háng tiān fēi jīspace shuttle
• 横飞héng fēi(of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air
• 神采飞扬shén cǎi fēi yángin high spirits (idiom); glowing with health and vigor
• 灰飞烟灭huī fēi yān mièlit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated…
• 龙飞lóng fēito promote (to official position in former times)
• 远走高飞yuǎn zǒu gāo fēi(idiom) to go far away; to flee to a distant place
• 宇宙飞船yǔ zhòu fēi chuánspaceship; spacecraft
• 魂飞魄散hún fēi pò sànlit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom); fig. to be frightened stiff…
• 黄飞鸿Huáng Fēi hóngWong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master
• 龙飞凤舞lóng fēi fèng wǔflamboyant or bold cursive calligraphy (idiom)
• 停飞tíng fēi(of an aircraft) to be grounded
• 单飞dān fēito fly solo; (fig.) to go solo; to leave a group and go it alone
• 执飞zhí fēi(of an airline) to run a flight

Sounds the same

Read fēi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 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
• 绯dark red; purple silk
• 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

Where 飞 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 1 Characters · Set 17 (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fēi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.