非
Meanings
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- 1.abbr. for 非洲[Fēi zhōu], Africa
- 1.to not be; not
- 2.wrong; incorrect
- 3.non-; un-; in-; de-
- 4.to reproach; to blame
- 5.(coll.) to insist on; simply must
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Wiktionary
- 1.not be; is not; not
- 2.to run counter to; to not conform to
- 3.NOT
- 4.wrong; incorrect
- 5.to reproach; to blame
- 6.Used to insist on something. to have got to; to simply must
- 7.(Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 非 (MC pj+j)
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) - two wings facing opposite directions. Originally, it represented wings; then, according to Xu Shen, its meaning changed into "leave; disobey" (違). Eventually, it was used perhaps as a phonetic loan to mean "not to be". Unrelated to the Kangxi radical 韭. 非 (OC *pɯj) is the fusion of the negation particle 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “not”) and the copula 惟 (OC *ɢʷi, “to be”), attested in oracle bone inscriptions.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
你們有非吸煙區嗎？
Do you have a non-smoking section?
我希望事情並非如此。
I hope that is not the case.
並非所有的乘客都免於受傷。
Not all of the passengers escaped injury.
為了正當目的並非總是可以不擇手段.
The end does not always justify the means.
你很容易把母语说得通顺流畅，却很容易把非母语说得不自然。
It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.
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Derived terms
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