肥 (fei4 | fei2) : fat; plump

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肥

fei4

fei2

[1] fat; plump; obese; portly; corpulent [2] fat (of meat) [3] sufficiency; affluence; plenty [4] fertile [5] [v] fertilize (land) [6] fertilizers [7] baggy

Stroke count: 12

Level: 3

Radical: 肉 (#130)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

肥

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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肥仔 fei4 zai2 = fatty, fatso (male) 粵

肥皂 fei4 zou6 fei2 zao4 = soap 國

肥大 fei4 daai6 = [1] dilatancy, [2] hypertrophy, [3] obesity, portliness

肥美 fei4 mei5 fei2 mei3 = fertile, rich, luxuriant, plump, fat

減肥 gaam2 fei4 jian3 fei2 = diet

拖肥 to1 fei4*2 tuo1 fei2 = toffee, toffy

肥料 fei4 liu6*2 fei2 liao4 = fertilizer

施肥 si1 fei4 shi1 fei2 = to fertilize; to add fertilizer

肥沃 fei4 juk1 fei2 wo4 = fertile

肥瘦 fei4 sau3 fei2 shou4 = girth of a garment, etc; proportion of fat and lean
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Showing all 2 examples containing 肥

肥仔要做多啲運動減肥。粵
Fat guys have to do more exercise to lose weight.

個肥仔出力噉𨅝住部三輪車粵
The fat guy is pedalling furiously on his tricycle.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 肥
Unicode code for this character: U+80A5 (off-site link)

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