fěi

graceful

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
wén writing
Sound component
fēi not

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpɯl
pʰɯlʔ

說文解字

分別文也。从文非聲。《易》曰:“君子豹變,其文斐也。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica