HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Everyday Verbs

飞 fēi “to fly” in Chinese

Traditional 飛

What 飞 means

  1. to fly

How to say 飞

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale飞fēi1st tone, high and level

飞 in a sentence

  1. 所有鸟都会飞吗？

    Suǒyǒu niǎo dōu huì fēi ma?

    Can all birds fly?

    Sentence #677005 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 飞机飞向东方。

    Fēijī fēi xiàng dōngfāng.

    The plane flew east.

    Sentence #353631 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这只鸟不能飞。

    Zhè zhī niǎo bùnéng fēi.

    This bird can’t fly.

    Sentence #381926 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 飞 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 飞 (fēi) drawn as one shape
飞fēito fly

飞 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a bird’s wings in flight.

How to write 飞

飞 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

飞 (fēi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 飞 (fēi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 飞

Words with 飞

飞机fēijī · aeroplane起飞qǐfēi · take off in an aeroplane飞翔fēixiáng · to fly飞跃fēiyuè · leap飞禽走兽fēiqínzǒushòu · birds and beasts

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帮bāng · to help打dǎ · to hit打开dǎkāi · to open动dòng · to move考kǎo · to take an exam跑pǎo · to run踢tī · to kick忘wàng · to forget

FAQs

飞 (fēi) means “to fly”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it fēi: fēi with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 飞 is written 飛. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 飞 from the suggestions. Typing fei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
飞 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.