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非 fēi fěi

fēi adverb not / non- / un-
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
Notes: In the sense of 不; the pattern 非…不… is a pattern of double negation commonly used to emphasize a point (Guoyu '非' adv)
fēi noun Kangxi radical 175
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals 部首
Notes: Not (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
fēi adjective wrong / bad / untruthful
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '非' adj 1)
fēi adjective different
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 不同的 (Guoyu '非' adj 2)
fēi verb to not be / to not have
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Negative copula used in noun predication in literary Chinese, in the sense of 不是 (Guoyu '非' v 3; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 106). For example, 非我也，歲也。'It is not owing to me; it is owing to the year.' (Mengzi 1.3/2/8, translation by Legge)
fēi verb to violate / to be contrary to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 反对 (Guoyu '非' v 2)
fēi proper noun Africa
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Abbreviation for 非洲 (Guoyu '非' n 2)
fēi verb to slander
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Synonymous with 诽 or 诋毁 in this sense (Guoyu '非' v 2)
fěi verb to avoid
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 诽谤 (Guoyu '非' fěi)
fēi verb must
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Synonymous with 必须 in this sense.
fēi noun an error
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Synonymous with 错误 in this sense (Guoyu '非' 1)
fēi noun a problem / a question
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Synonymous with 问题 in this sense.
fēi noun evil
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Synonymous with 恶行 in this sense (Guoyu '非' n 1)
fēi preposition besides / except / unless
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
Notes: Synonymous with 除了 in this sense. 非 in this sense acts in a subordinating function in Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 154).

Contained in

非常 extraordinarily / very ; out of the ordinary / unusual ; impermanent / transient
人非人 kijnara / human or non-human being
非想非非想处天(非想非非想處天) Naiva-samjnanasamjnayatana Heaven / Naiva-sajjnanasajjnayatana / The Heaven of Neither Thought nor Non-Thought
非行非坐三昧 Non-Walking and Non-Sitting Samadhi / non-walking, non-sitting samadhi
非人 a non-human
非行非坐 neither walking, nor sitting

Contained in

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Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 901
Scroll 595 The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 《大般若波羅蜜多經》 — count: 900
Scroll 25 Śāriputrābhidharmaśāstra (Shelifu Apitan Lun) 《舍利弗阿毘曇論》 — count: 898
Scroll 93 The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 《大般若波羅蜜多經》 — count: 844
Scroll 92 The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 《大般若波羅蜜多經》 — count: 840
Scroll 292 The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 《大般若波羅蜜多經》 — count: 810
Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 765
Scroll 2 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 《成唯識論述記》 — count: 715
Scroll 21 Śāriputrābhidharmaśāstra (Shelifu Apitan Lun) 《舍利弗阿毘曇論》 — count: 643
Scroll 72 The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 《大般若波羅蜜多經》 — count: 624