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绯

緋
fēi
adjective #93,023

Meanings

  1. 1 bright red; crimson

Examples

听到夸奖，她双颊绯红。
Tīngdào kuājiǎng, tā shuāngjiá fēihóng.
Hearing the praise, her cheeks flushed red.
最近这位演员传出绯闻。
Zuìjìn zhè wèi yǎnyuán chuánchū fēiwén.
Recently the actor has been caught up in romantic gossip.

Tips

usage
Two key compounds: 绯红 (crimson, often a blushing face) and 绯闻 (romantic scandal / love gossip about a public figure), the modern sense you will meet most in entertainment news.

Components

radical
纟 sī
silk radical
The side form of the silk radical 糸. Color words for fabric and dyed cloth take this radical; the original sense was red-dyed silk.
phonetic
非 fēi
not; wrong
Provides the sound, read 非 and unchanged here. It serves only as the phonetic cue, unrelated to its own meaning.

Stroke Order

绯 fēi