啡
fēi
#2,321 most
frequent character
(used in loanwords for its phonetic value)
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
啡 joins 口 mouth, sound with 非 fēi, which supplies the sound. It first wrote the sound of spitting, read pèi. In modern Mandarin it mostly stands for sound, read fēi.
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