fèi

sorry

Components

Meaning component
xin, xīn heart

heart

Sound component
not

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbjɨjH[b][u]t-sgrieved
bjut[b][u]tgrieved, annoyed
Zhengzhangbɯds
bɯd

說文解字

鬱也。从心弗聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica