飞
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.
。
The plane is about to take off.
，。
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.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 飞.
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