漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
飛: fly, skip (pages)
Also: scatter
JLPT N39 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ヒhi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 飛行機ひこうきairplane
- 飛行場ひこうじょうairport
- 飛行船ひこうせんairship
- 飛躍するひやくするleap [v.i.]
とぶtobu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 飛ぶとぶjump, fly [v.i.]
- 飛び込むとびこむjump in
- 飛び上がるとびあがるjump up
とばすtobasu · kun'yomi
- 飛ばすとばすsend, fly [v.t.]
Also read -とばす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A bird flying upwards.
Source: Wiktionary, 飛 (rev. 92678306), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for flight, capturing the essential motion of birds and anything that travels through the sky.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
升
Also built on measuring box (升)
In ChineseSimplified 飞 · traditional, as in Japanese · fēi
Japan keeps the traditional form 飛; mainland China simplifies it to 飞.
- Simplified
- 飞 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 飛 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.
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