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鲱

fēi

Character Traditional 鯡

What 鲱 means

1. Pacific herring

Example sentences

• 丢鲱鱼抓鲸鱼。
  Diū fēiyú zhuā jīngyú.
  Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
• 汤姆讨厌鲱鱼味。
  Tom hates the smell of herring.
• 今天早饭我吃了些腌鲱鱼。
  Jīntiān zǎofàn wǒ chī le xiē yān fēiyú.
  Today I had some kipper for breakfast.

Words starting with 鲱

• 鲱鱼fēi yúherring

Words containing 鲱

• 西鲱xī fēiallis shad (Alosa alosa)
• 圆腹鲱yuán fù fēiround herring

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 鲱

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

• 鲸jīngwhale
• 鳃sāigills of fish
• 鲭qīngmackerel
• 鲣jiānbonito
• 鲼fènany ray (fish) variety of Myliobatiformes order
• 耨nòuhoe; to hoe; to weed

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
• 绯dark red; purple silk
• 霏fall of snow
• 扉door with only one leaf
• 騑side horse (in a team of harnessed horses); horse
• 馡fragrant
• 䬠old variant of 霏