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非fēi

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Shuowen

非. The oracle bone form shows two parallel strokes diverging in opposite directions, resembling wings or opposing forces. This pictographic representation of things moving apart or in contradiction gave rise to its meaning of negation, wrong, or not—the fundamental sense of opposition or denial that the character has carried through the millennia.

Pinyin

fēi· HSK 1