肺 meaning and stroke order
Lung
How to write 肺, stroke by stroke
8 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 肺
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- lung
How 肺 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Flesh.
⺼ gives the meaning and 巿 hints at the sound.
Radical: ⺼ (meat), shared by 176 characters on this site.
How to remember 肺
The left side ⺼ is the flesh radical, used for body parts, and the right side 巿 (fú) gives the sound. Picture a piece of flesh in your chest that hangs like a cloth apron 巿: that is your lung, 肺 (fèi).
肺 (fèi) rarely stands alone in speech. It mostly appears in medical and health words like 肺炎 (fèiyán) pneumonia and 肺癌 (fèi'ái) lung cancer. Example: 吸烟对肺不好。(Xīyān duì fèi bù hǎo.) Smoking is bad for the lungs.
Common mistake: The right side is 巿 (fú), not 市 (shì, market). 巿 has a single vertical stroke going straight through from top to bottom, while 市 has a separate dot on top, so do not write 肺 with a dot.
Common words with 肺
Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.
肺 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
Questions about 肺
How many strokes are in 肺?
肺 is written with 8 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 肺 mean?
肺 (fèi) means lung. A common word with it is 肺炎 (fèiyán), meaning "pneumonia; inflammation of the lungs".
How do you pronounce 肺?
肺 is pronounced fèi, in the fourth tone (falling).
What is the radical of 肺?
The radical of 肺 is ⺼, which carries the idea of "meat". Dictionaries list 肺 under this radical.
Is 肺 on the HSK exam?
Yes. 肺 is part of the HSK 6 character list in the HSK 3.0 standard.
What does 肺腑之言 mean?
肺腑之言 (fèifǔ zhī yán) means words from the bottom of one's heart. Here 肺腑 (fèifǔ), literally lungs and inner organs, stands for one's deepest feelings.
Why is the left side of 肺 the same as 月 (moon)?
In modern writing, the flesh radical ⺼ looks almost identical to 月. In characters for body parts, like 肺, 肝 (gān, liver), and 胃 (wèi, stomach), it means flesh, not moon.