HSK 6 · Body

肺 fèi “lung” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 肺 means

  1. lung

Measure word 个 gè · 一个肺 yí ge fèi

How to say 肺

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale肺fèi4th tone, falling

肺 in a sentence

  1. 公园和城市的关系，就好比肺和动物的关系一样。

    Gōngyuán hé chéngshì de guānxi, jiù hǎobǐ fèi hé dòngwù de guānxi yíyàng.

    Parks are to a city what lungs are to an animal.

    Sentence #10355509 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 吸烟影响了他的肺部。

    Xīyān yǐngxiǎng le tā de fèibù.

    Smoking has affected his lungs.

    Sentence #334691 from Tatoeba

  3. 他得了肺炎，难怪他在不停的咳嗽。

    Tā dé le fèiyán, nánguài tā zài bùtíng de késou.

    He’s got pneumonia – no wonder he keeps coughing.

    Sentence #4632991 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 肺 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 肺 (fèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
肺fèilung
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 巿to revolve · fúSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 巿 (fú) hints at the sound. Compare it with fèi.

How to write 肺

肺 8 strokes

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

Words related to 肺

More words: People, Body & Health

恶心ěxin · to feel sick防治fángzhì · to prevent and treat (disease)发炎fāyán · to become inflamed发育fāyù · to develop分泌fēnmì · to secrete腹泻fùxiè · diarrhoea感染gǎnrǎn · to infect疙瘩gēda · pimple

FAQs

肺 (fèi) means “lung”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fèi: fèi with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 肺 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one lung is 一个肺 (yí ge fèi).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 肺 from the suggestions. Typing fei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
肺 is an HSK 6 word in the 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.