漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
非: un-, mistake
Also: negative, injustice, non-
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ヒhi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 非ひfaulty, non-
- 非常にひじょうにvery, extremely
- 非常事態ひじょうじたいstate of emergency
- 非常口ひじょうぐちemergency exit
- 非常識ひじょうしきlack of common sense
- 非売品ひばいひんarticle not for sale
- 非公式なひこうしきなinformal
- 非科学的なひかがくてきなunscientific
- 非難するひなんするblame [v.t.]
- 是非ぜひcertainly, right or wrong
Also read あらず, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Two wings facing opposite directions. Originally, it represented wings; then, according to Xu Shen, its meaning changed into "leave; disobey" (違).
Source: Wiktionary, 非 (rev. 93366401), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for "not," "wrong," or "evil"—the core of the negative prefix.”
Connections
非 gives its sound to
The family reading is ヒ (hi). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fēi
Same form: 非 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 非 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 非 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fēi most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.