| 非 | [ feī ] abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa |
| 非 | [ feī ] to not be, not, wrong, incorrect, non-, un-, in-, to reproach or blame, (colloquial) to insist on, simply must |
| 非一日之功 | [ feī yī rì zhī gōng ] lit. cannot be done in one day (idiom), fig. will take much time and effort to accomplish |
| 非主流 | [ feī zhǔ liú ] alternative, non-mainstream |
| 非人 | [ feī rén ] not the right person (literary), inhuman |
| 非人化 | [ feī rén huà ] dehumanization |
| 非份 | [ feī fèn ] improper, presumptuous, assuming, overstepping one's bounds, also written 非分[fei1 fen4] |
| 非但 | [ feī dàn ] not only |
| 非你莫屬 | [ feī nǐ mò shǔ ] it's yours exclusively (idiom), you are the one, only you deserve it, only you can do it |
| 非公式 | [ feī gōng shì ] unofficial, informal |
| 非典 | [ feī diǎn ] atypical pneumonia, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS |
| 非典型肺炎 | [ feī diǎn xíng feì yán ] atypical pneumonia, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS |
| 非凡 | [ feī fán ] out of the ordinary, unusually (good, talented etc) |
| 非分 | [ feī fèn ] improper, presumptuous, assuming, overstepping one's bounds, also written 非份[fei1 fen4] |
| 非分之念 | [ feī fèn zhī niàn ] improper idea |
| 非利士 | [ feī lì shì ] Philistine (Palestinian people, reputedly uncircumcised, c. 1,000 BC) |
| 非利士族 | [ feī lì shì zú ] Philistine (Palestinian people, reputedly uncircumcised, c. 1,000 BC) |
| 非動物性 | [ feī dòng wù xìng ] inanimacy |
| 非動物性名詞 | [ feī dòng wù xìng míng cí ] inanimate noun |
| 非同凡響 | [ feī tóng fán xiǎng ] out of the ordinary |
| 非同小可 | [ feī tóng kě ] extremely important, no small matter |
| 非同步 | [ feī tóng bù ] asynchronous |
| 非同步傳輸模式 | [ feī tóng bù chuán shū mó shì ] asynchronous transfer mode, ATM |
| 非同質化代幣 | [ feī tóng zhì huà daì bì ] non-fungible token (NFT) |
| 非吸煙 | [ feī xī yān ] nonsmoking |
| 非命 | [ feī mìng ] violent death, killed in a disaster |
| 非國大 | [ feī guó dà ] African National Congress, ANC, abbr. for 非洲人國民大會|非洲人国民大会[Fei1 zhou1 ren2 guo2 min2 da4 hui4] |
| 非均質 | [ feī jūn zhì ] inhomogeneous |
| 非婚生 | [ feī hūn shēng ] born out of wedlock, illegitimate |
| 非婚生子女 | [ feī hūn shēng zǐ nǚ ] an illegitimate child |
| 非宗教 | [ feī zōng ] secular (society), non-religious (party) |
| 非官方 | [ feī guān fāng ] unofficial |
| 非富則貴 | [ feī fù zé guì ] see 非富即貴|非富即贵[fei1 fu4 ji2 gui4] |
| 非富即貴 | [ feī fù jí guì ] wealthy and respectable people |
| 非寫實 | [ feī xiě shí ] nonrepresentational |
| 非對稱 | [ feī duì chèn ] asymmetric |
| 非對稱式數據用戶線 | [ feī duì chèn shì shù jù yòng hù xiàn ] Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line, ADSL |
| 非導體 | [ feī daǒ tǐ ] nonconductor (of electricity, heat etc) |
| 非小說 | [ feī shuō ] non-fiction |
| 非層巖 | [ feī céng yán ] unstratified rock |
| 非層狀 | [ feī céng zhuàng ] unstratified |
| 非峰值 | [ feī fēng zhí ] off-peak |
| 非常 | [ feī cháng ] very, very much, unusual, extraordinary |
| 非常多 | [ feī cháng duō ] much, very many |
| 非常感謝 | [ feī cháng gǎn xiè ] extremely grateful, very thankful |
| 非常手段 | [ feī cháng shoǔ duàn ] an emergency measure |
| 非平衡 | [ feī píng héng ] non-equilibrium, disequilibrium, unbalance |
| 非平衡態 | [ feī píng héng taì ] unbalance, disequilibrium |
| 非得 | [ feī deǐ ] (followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must |
| 非微擾 | [ feī weī raǒ ] non-perturbative (physics) |
| 非必要 | [ feī bì yaò ] inessential, unnecessary |
| 非必需 | [ feī bì xū ] inessential |
| 非拉丁字符 | [ feī lā dīng zì fú ] non-Latin characters |
| 非政府 | [ feī zhèng fǔ ] non-governmental |
| 非政府組織 | [ feī zhèng fǔ zǔ zhī ] non-governmental organization (NGO) |
| 非數字 | [ feī shù zì ] non-numeric |
| 非斯 | [ feī sī ] Fes (third largest city of Morocco) |
| 非暴力 | [ feī baò lì ] nonviolent |
| 非核 | [ feī hé ] non-nuclear |
| 非核化 | [ feī hé huà ] denuclearization |
| 非核國家 | [ feī hé guó jiā ] non-nuclear country |
| 非核地帶 | [ feī hé dì daì ] nuclear-free zone |
| 非核武器國家 | [ feī hé wǔ qì guó jiā ] non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS) |
| 非條件反射 | [ feī jiàn fǎn shè ] unconditioned reflex (physiology) |
| 非槓桿化 | [ feī gàng gǎn huà ] deleveraging (i.e. paying off part of a leverage loan) |
| 非標準 | [ feī zhǔn ] nonstandard, unconventional |
| 非模態 | [ feī mó taì ] modeless (computing) |
| 非歐幾何 | [ feī oū jǐ hé ] non-Euclidean geometry |
| 非歐幾何學 | [ feī oū jǐ hé xué ] non-Euclidean geometry |
| 非正常 | [ feī zhèng cháng ] abnormal, irregular |
| 非正式 | [ feī zhèng shì ] unofficial, informal |
| 非正數 | [ feī zhèng shù ] a nonpositive number (i.e. negative or zero) |
| 非此即彼 | [ feī cǐ jí bǐ ] either this or that, one or the other |
| 非死不可 | [ feī sǐ bù kě ] Facebook (Internet slang, pun reading "you must die") |
| 非法 | [ feī fǎ ] illegal |
| 非法定 | [ feī fǎ dìng ] non-statutory, non-governmental |
| 非洲 | [ feī zhoū ] Africa, abbr. for 阿非利加洲[A1 fei1 li4 jia1 Zhou1] |
| 非洲之角 | [ feī zhoū zhī ] Horn of Africa |
| 非洲人 | [ feī zhoū rén ] African (person) |
| 非洲人國民大會 | [ feī zhoū rén guó mín dà huì ] African National Congress, ANC |
| 非洲單源說 | [ feī zhoū dān yuán shuō ] single origin out of Africa (current mainstream theory of human evolution) |
| 非洲大裂谷 | [ feī zhoū dà liè gǔ ] Great East African rift valley |
| 非洲界 | [ feī zhoū jiè ] Afrotropical realm |
| 非洲統一組織 | [ feī zhoū tǒng yī zǔ zhī ] Organization of African Unity |
| 非洲聯盟 | [ feī zhoū lián méng ] African Union |
| 非洲錐蟲病 | [ feī zhoū zhuī chóng bìng ] sleeping sickness, African trypanosomiasis |
| 非洲開發銀行 | [ feī zhoū kaī fā yín háng ] African Development Bank |
| 非營利 | [ feī yíng lì ] nonprofit, not for profit |
| 非營利組織 | [ feī yíng lì zǔ zhī ] nonprofit organization |
| 非物質文化遺產 | [ feī wù zhì wén huà yí chǎn ] (UNESCO) Intangible Cultural Heritage |
| 非特 | [ feī tè ] not only |
| 非獨 | [ feī dú ] not only, not merely |
| 非獨立 | [ feī dú lì ] dependent |
| 非異人任 | [ feī yì rén rèn ] to bear one's own responsibilities and not pass them to others (idiom) |
| 非盈利 | [ feī yíng lì ] nonprofit |
| 非盈利的組織 | [ feī yíng lì de zǔ zhī ] nonprofit organization |
| 非盈利組織 | [ feī yíng lì zǔ zhī ] nonprofit organization |
| 非盟 | [ feī méng ] African Union (AU), abbr. for 非洲聯盟|非洲联盟 |
| 非直接 | [ feī zhí jiē ] indirect |
| 非相對論性 | [ feī xiāng duì lùn xìng ] non-relativistic (physics) |
| 非禮 | [ feī lǐ ] rudeness, insolence, impropriety, harassment, molestation, indecent assault |
| 非空 | [ feī kōng ] nonempty (set) |
| 非線性 | [ feī xiàn xìng ] nonlinear (math.) |
| 非線性光學 | [ feī xiàn xìng guāng xué ] nonlinear optics (physics) |
| 非羈押性 | [ feī jī yā xìng ] noncustodial (sentence) |
| 非自然 | [ feī zì rán ] unnatural, occult |
| 非致命 | [ feī zhì mìng ] not fatal, not life-threatening (medical condition) |
| 非處方藥 | [ feī chǔ fāng yaò ] over-the-counter drug |
| 非裔 | [ feī yì ] of African descent |
| 非要 | [ feī yaò ] to want absolutely, to insist on (doing something) |
| 非規整 | [ feī guī zhěng ] irregular, disordered |
| 非親非故 | [ feī qīn feī gù ] lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom), fig. unrelated to one another in any way |
| 非詞重復測驗 | [ feī cí chóng fù cè yàn ] nonword repetition test |
| 非誠勿擾 | [ feī chéng wù raǒ ] serious inquiries only |
| 非議 | [ feī yì ] to criticize |
| 非負數 | [ feī fù shù ] a nonnegative number (i.e. positive or zero) |
| 非贏利組織 | [ feī yíng lì zǔ zhī ] not-for-profit organization |
| 非軍事區 | [ feī jūn shì qū ] Demilitarized Zone DMZ |
| 非遞推 | [ feī dì tuī ] nonrecursive |
| 非遺傳多型性 | [ feī yí chuán duō xíng xìng ] polyphenism |
| 非都會郡 | [ feī dū huì jùn ] non-metropolitan county (England) |
| 非金屬 | [ feī jīn shǔ ] nonmetal (chemistry) |
| 非阿貝爾 | [ feī ā beì ěr ] (math.) non-abelian |
| 非難 | [ feī nàn ] reproof, blame |
| 非零 | [ feī líng ] nonzero |
| 非音 | [ feī yīn ] (ling) unstressed (syllable) |
| 非預謀 | [ feī yù moú ] unpremeditated |
| 非驢非馬 | [ feī lǘ feī mǎ ] neither fish nor fowl, resembling nothing on earth |
| 非高峰 | [ feī gaō fēng ] off-peak |
| 非黑即白 | [ feī heī jí baí ] black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground) |
| 非黨 | [ feī dǎng ] non-party |
| 非黨人士 | [ feī dǎng rén shì ] non-party member |
| ⇒ 不到長城非好漢 | [ bù daò cháng chéng feī haǒ hàn ] lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal |
| ⇒ 並非 | [ bìng feī ] really isn't |
| ⇒ 中非 | [ zhōng feī ] China-Africa (relations), Central Africa, Central African Republic |
| ⇒ 中非共和國 | [ zhōng feī gòng hé guó ] Central African Republic |
| ⇒ 亞非拉 | [ yà feī lā ] Asia, Africa and Latin America |
| ⇒ 人非生而知之者，孰能無惑 | [ rén feī shēng ér zhī zhī zhě shú néng wú huò ] Knowledge is not innate to man, how can we overcome doubt?, We are not born with knowledge, how does one achieve maturity? (i.e. without guidance from a teacher - Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4]) |
| ⇒ 今非昔比 | [ jīn feī xī bǐ ] things are very different now (idiom), times have changed |
| ⇒ 似懂非懂 | [ sì dǒng feī dǒng ] to not really understand, to half-understand |
| ⇒ 似是而非 | [ sì shì ér feī ] apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom) |
| ⇒ 似笑非笑 | [ sì feī ] like a smile yet not a smile (idiom) |
| ⇒ 來而不往非禮也 | [ laí ér bù wǎng feī lǐ yě ] not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical), to respond in kind |
| ⇒ 倫敦大學亞非學院 | [ lún dūn dà xué yà feī xué yuàn ] London University School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) |
| ⇒ 冰凍三尺，非一日之寒 | [ bīng dòng sān chǐ feī yī rì zhī hán ] three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day |
| ⇒ 北非 | [ beǐ feī ] North Africa |
| ⇒ 南非 | [ nán feī ] South Africa |
| ⇒ 南非茶 | [ nán feī chá ] rooibos tea |
| ⇒ 南非語 | [ nán feī yǔ ] Afrikaans (language) |
| ⇒ 口是心非 | [ koǔ shì xīn feī ] duplicity, hypocrisy (idiom) |
| ⇒ 啼笑皆非 | [ tí jiē feī ] lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom), between laughter and tears |
| ⇒ 單非 | [ dān feī ] a couple in which one of the spouses is not a Hong Kong citizen |
| ⇒ 塞翁失馬安知非福 | [ saì wēng shī mǎ ān zhī feī fú ] the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, also written 塞翁失馬焉知非福|塞翁失马焉知非福 |
| ⇒ 塞翁失馬焉知非福 | [ saì wēng shī mǎ yān zhī feī fú ] the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good |
| ⇒ 安非他命 | [ ān feī tā mìng ] amphetamine (medical) (loanword) |
| ⇒ 安非他明 | [ ān feī tā míng ] amphetamine (loanword) |
| ⇒ 官非 | [ guān feī ] lawsuit (from Cantonese) |
| ⇒ 尋事生非 | [ xún shì shēng feī ] to look for trouble |
| ⇒ 布氏非鯽 | [ bù shì feī jì ] zebra tilapia, Tilapia buttikoferi (zoology) |
| ⇒ 想入非非 | [ xiǎng rù feī feī ] to indulge in fantasy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild |
| ⇒ 想入非非 | [ xiǎng rù feī feī ] to indulge in fantasy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild |
| ⇒ 惹事生非 | [ rě shì shēng feī ] variant of 惹是生非[re3 shi4 sheng1 fei1] |
| ⇒ 惹是生非 | [ rě shì shēng feī ] to stir up trouble |
| ⇒ 惹是非 | [ rě shì feī ] to stir up trouble |
| ⇒ 挑撥是非 | [ bō shì feī ] to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people, to tell tales, to make mischief |
| ⇒ 掃黃打非 | [ saǒ huáng dǎ feī ] to eradicate pornography and illegal publications |
| ⇒ 搬弄是非 | [ bān nòng shì feī ] to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people, to tell tales, to make mischief |
| ⇒ 撒哈拉以南非洲 | [ sā hā lā yǐ nán feī zhoū ] sub-Saharan Africa |
| ⇒ 撩是生非 | [ shì shēng feī ] to stir up trouble, to provoke angry exchange |
| ⇒ 文過飾非 | [ wén guò shì feī ] to cover up one's faults (idiom), to whitewash |
| ⇒ 明辨是非 | [ míng biàn shì feī ] to distinguish right and wrong (idiom) |
| ⇒ 是非 | [ shì feī ] right and wrong, quarrel |
| ⇒ 是非不分 | [ shì feī bù fēn ] unable to distinguish right and wrong (idiom) |
| ⇒ 是非之地 | [ shì feī zhī dì ] trouble spot, sketchy area |
| ⇒ 是非分明 | [ shì feī fēn míng ] to distinguish right from wrong (idiom) |
| ⇒ 是非曲直 | [ shì feī qū zhí ] lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits, pros and cons |
| ⇒ 是非自有公論 | [ shì feī zì yoǔ gōng lùn ] to determine right and wrong based on public opinion (idiom), Public opinion will judge what's right and wrong. |
| ⇒ 是非莫辨 | [ shì feī mò biàn ] unable to distinguish right and wrong (idiom) |
| ⇒ 有仇不報非君子 | [ yoǔ choú bù baò feī jūn zǐ ] a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) |
| ⇒ 有仇不報非君子，有冤不伸枉為人 | [ yoǔ choú bù baò feī jūn zǐ yoǔ yuān bù shēn wǎng weí rén ] one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom) |
| ⇒ 未可厚非 | [ weì kě hoù feī ] not to be censured too strictly (idiom), not altogether inexcusable, understandable |
| ⇒ 李格非 | [ lǐ gé feī ] Li Gefei (active c. 1090), Northern Song writer and father of southern Song female poet Li Qingzhao 李清照 |
| ⇒ 東非 | [ dōng feī ] East Africa |
| ⇒ 東非共同體 | [ dōng feī gòng tóng tǐ ] East African Community |
| ⇒ 東非大地塹 | [ dōng feī dà dì qiàn ] Great East African rift valley |
| ⇒ 東非大裂谷 | [ dōng feī dà liè gǔ ] Great East African rift valley |
| ⇒ 死於非命 | [ sǐ yú feī mìng ] violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster, an unnatural death |
| ⇒ 混淆是非 | [ hùn shì feī ] to confuse right and wrong (idiom) |
| ⇒ 為非作歹 | [ weí feī zuò daǐ ] to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor, evildoer, to perpetrate outrages |
| ⇒ 無事獻殷勤，非姦即盜 | [ wú shì xiàn yīn qín feī jiān jí daò ] one who is unaccountably solicitous is hiding evil intentions (idiom) |
| ⇒ 無事生非 | [ wú shì shēng feī ] to make trouble out of nothing |
| ⇒ 無可厚非 | [ wú kě hoù feī ] see 未可厚非[wei4 ke3 hou4 fei1] |
| ⇒ 無可非議 | [ wú kě feī yì ] irreproachable (idiom), nothing blameworthy about it at all |
| ⇒ 無非 | [ wú feī ] only, nothing else |
| ⇒ 物是人非 | [ wù shì rén feī ] things have remained the same, but people have changed |
| ⇒ 甲基安非他命 | [ jiǎ jī ān feī tā mìng ] methamphetamine |
| ⇒ 痛改前非 | [ tòng gaǐ qián feī ] completely correcting one's former misdeeds (idiom); to repent past mistakes and turn over a new leaf, a reformed character |
| ⇒ 積非成是 | [ jī feī chéng shì ] a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth |
| ⇒ 答非所問 | [ dá feī suǒ wèn ] (idiom) to sidestep the question, to answer evasively |
| ⇒ 索非亞 | [ suǒ feī yà ] Sofia, capital of Bulgaria |
| ⇒ 絕非 | [ jué feī ] absolutely not |
| ⇒ 聖大非 | [ shèng dà feī ] Santa Fe |
| ⇒ 聖索非亞 | [ shèng suǒ feī yà ] Hagia Sophia (Greek: Holy wisdom) |
| ⇒ 聖索非亞大教堂 | [ shèng suǒ feī yà dà táng ] Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul) |
| ⇒ 胡作非為 | [ hú zuò feī weí ] to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages |
| ⇒ 若要人不知，除非己莫為 | [ ruò yaò rén bù zhī chú feī jǐ mò weí ] If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it. |
| ⇒ 若非 | [ ruò feī ] were it not for, if not for |
| ⇒ 莫達非尼 | [ mò dá feī ní ] modafinil (loanword) |
| ⇒ 莫非 | [ mò feī ] can it be possible that, could it be |
| ⇒ 薩非王朝 | [ sà feī wáng chaó ] Persian Safavid Dynasty 1501-1722 |
| ⇒ 蘇非主義 | [ sū feī zhǔ yì ] Sufism (Islamic mystic tradition) |
| ⇒ 西地那非 | [ xī dì nà feī ] sildenafil (virility drug) (loanword) |
| ⇒ 西非 | [ xī feī ] West Africa |
| ⇒ 豈非 | [ qǐ feī ] wouldn't it be ... ? |
| ⇒ 遠非如此 | [ yuǎn feī rú cǐ ] far from it being so (idiom) |
| ⇒ 金錢非萬能 | [ jīn qián feī wàn néng ] money is not omnipotent, money isn't everything, money can't buy you love |
| ⇒ 阿非利加 | [ ā feī lì jiā ] Africa |
| ⇒ 阿非利加洲 | [ ā feī lì jiā zhoū ] Africa, abbr. to 非洲[Fei1 zhou1] |
| ⇒ 除非 | [ chú feī ] only if (..., or otherwise, ...), only when, only in the case that, unless |
| ⇒ 雙非 | [ shuāng feī ] a couple where both spouses are not Hong Kong citizens |
| ⇒ 非親非故 | [ feī qīn feī gù ] lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom), fig. unrelated to one another in any way |
| ⇒ 非驢非馬 | [ feī lǘ feī mǎ ] neither fish nor fowl, resembling nothing on earth |
| ⇒ 面目全非 | [ miàn mù quán feī ] nothing remains the same (idiom); change beyond recognition |
| ⇒ 韓非 | [ hán feī ] Han Fei, also known as Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3] (c. 280-233 BC), Legalist philosopher of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) |
| ⇒ 韓非子 | [ hán feī zǐ ] another name for Han Fei 韩非[Han2 Fei1], Legalist philosopher (c. 280-233 BC), Han Feizi, book of Legalist Philosophy authored by Han Fei 韓非|韩非[Han2 Fei1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) |
| ⇒ 顛倒是非 | [ diān daǒ shì feī ] to invert right and wrong |
| ⇒ 齊大非偶 | [ qí dà feī oǔ ] too rich to be a good match (in marriage) (idiom) |
| ⇒ 齊大非耦 | [ qí dà feī oǔ ] variant of 齊大非偶|齐大非偶[qi2 da4 fei1 ou3] |
