蜚 (fei1 fei2 | fei1 fei3) : rumoured; become famous

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蜚

fei1 fei2

fei1 fei3

[粵] fei1 | [國] fei1
[1] [adj] rumoured; groundless; untrue
[2] [v] make a name (for oneself); become famous
[3] [v] fly; hover (as variant of 飛)

[粵] fei2 | [國] fei3
[n] cockroach; locust

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Stroke count: 14

Level: 3

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

蜚

This word has been viewed 3377 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by yuetwoh on 2nd Jul 2013 17:29 and last edited on 12th Dec 2013 09:46

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流言蜚語 lau4 jin4 fei1 jyu5 liu2 yan2 fei1 yu3 = lies and slanders

蜚聲海外 fei1 sing1 hoi2 ngoi6 fei1 sheng1 hai3 wai4 = make a name abroad

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近來傳出啲流言蜚語，話老闆畀人捉黃腳雞粵
Recently there has been all these slanderous tales about the boss being blackmailed for having some extra-marital affair.

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Decimal representation of this word: 蜚
Unicode code for this character: U+871a (off-site link)

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