/ fèi
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 lush; luxuriant (of vegetation)

Examples

Shī zhōng yòng fú xíngróng cǎomù màoshèng.
In the poem, this character describes vegetation growing thick and lush.
Shānlín fú rán, shēn bù jiàn dǐ.
The mountain forest was lush and green, deep with no end in sight.

Tips

history
Read it means vegetation growing thick and lush. It is a rare literary word, best known from the 《诗经》 (Book of Songs). The same character also has a second reading used only in the set phrase 蔽芾 (small and dense).

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical on top, a left-side-and-top form of (grass). It marks as a plant-and-vegetation word, the family that includes and .
phonetic
巿
ceremonial knee-cover (phonetic)
Supplies the sound. Standalone 巿 is an old word for a ceremonial knee apron; here it carries no meaning and only points to the fú reading. Note it differs from the look-alike (market), which has a separate dot on top.

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