(fēi) - to fly in Mandarin
fēiTraditional: 飛
Translation
to fly
Word origin
A pictograph of a bird in flight with its wings spread. The simplified 飞 keeps a single wing shape from the fuller traditional 飛.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- depiction of a bird with outspread wings
Stroke order
飞
Examples
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The bird is flying in the sky.
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The plane is about to take off.
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Time passes so fast, it just flew by.
风筝。
The kite flew very high.
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He dreams of flying into space.
飞 (fēi) means to fly. It applies to birds, aircraft and anything moving swiftly through the air.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 飞.
Used in
Grammar articles
(7)Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Formal Mandarin Connectives: 然而, 因此, 于是 and 尽管 (The Written Register)
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
Mandarin Loanwords: 咖啡, 沙发, 巧克力 and the Words You Already Know
Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)
The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened
The Mandarin 于 (yú) Family: 对于, 关于, 由于, 至于, 属于, 位于, 终于
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