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非 — to not be; not; wrong

to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-

Pinyin
fēi · Fēi
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — fēi, Fēi — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 非: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

非 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 非

Words with 非 in the HSK syllabus: 15

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 非常fēichángvery; really; unusual; extraordinaryHSK 1
  2. 非洲FēizhōuAfricaHSK 5
  3. 除非chúfēionly if; only when; only in the case that; unlessHSK 6
  4. 并非bìngfēireally isn'tHSK 7–9
  5. 非fēito not be; not; wrong; incorrectHSK 7–9
  6. 非但fēidànnot onlyHSK 7–9
  7. 非得fēiděimustHSK 7–9
  8. 非法fēifǎillegalHSK 7–9
  9. 非凡fēifánout of the ordinary; unusuallyHSK 7–9
  10. 面目全非miànmù-quánfēinothing remains the same; change beyond recognitionHSK 7–9
  11. 莫非mòfēican it be possible that; could it beHSK 7–9
  12. 是非shìfēiright and wrong; quarrelHSK 7–9
  13. 似是而非sìshì-érfēiapparently right but actually wrong; speciousHSK 7–9
  14. 无非wúfēionly; nothing elseHSK 7–9
  15. 无可厚非wúkěhòufēi—HSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.