岂非 qǐfēi isn't it Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 岂 豈 qǐ adverb how Used in formal or literary writing to form a rhetorical question, asking "how" or "how can it be that..."非 fēi verb not be to not be; to not belong to; equivalent to 是 shì in its negative form