非
fēiTraditional: 非
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Translation
not, non-; wrong
Stroke order
非
Examples
。
It's very cold today.
雨，。
Unless it rains, we'll go out.
。
He absolutely insists on going.
,。
No, I don't agree.
。
He never tells right from wrong when doing things.
非 (fēi) is a literary negator meaning not. In speech it survives mostly inside 非常 (very, literally 'not ordinary') and the conditional 除非 (unless).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 非.
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