非
fēifěi HSK1

not

非 fēi frequency
non- adverbadjective
(prefix) non-; un-; indicating a category or state outside of a specific scope

我有更多非技术方面的朋友，而不是技术方面的朋友。

wǒ yǒu gèng​duō fēi jì​shù fāng​miàn de péng​you, ér bù​shì jì​shù fāng​miàn de péng​you.

I have more non-technical friends than technical ones.

not be verb
to not be; to not belong to; equivalent to 是 shì in its negative form

世界并不是非白即黑。

shì​jiè bìng bù​shì fēi bái jí hēi.

The world is not black and white.

Africa proper noun
(bound form) short for Africa
to insist on adverb
(colloquial) to insist on; to simply must; often used in the 非...不可 fēi... bù​kě pattern to indicate a necessary condition or absolute requirement

我非爬不可吗？

wǒ fēi pá bù​kě ma?

Do I have to climb?

wrong
mistake; error; a wrong or evil deed; incorrect as opposed to 是 shì
to criticize
to blame; to censure; to reproach; to view as incorrect or bad
surname
a Chinese surname
radical
the 175th Kangxi radical
非 fěi
to slander
(archaic) to slander or defame; same as 诽 fěi

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Frequency
Character
Written text
283rd most common 774.7 per million
Movie subtitles
209th most common 842.1 per million appears in 94% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
58.1 per million appears in 23% of films
Written text
248.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+975E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)