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Kanji Detail for 飛 - "fly, soar"

飛

  • Meaning

    飛 means "fly, soar." Also associated with swift.

    1. Fly - To move through the air.

    2. Soar - To rise high; to glide.

    3. Swift - Fast; quick.

  • Words using 飛

    • 飛行 ひこう Listen flight; flying; aviation
    • 飛行機 ひこうき Listen airplane; aeroplane; plane
    • 犠飛 ぎひ Listen sacrifice fly
    • 飛躍 ひやく Listen leap; jump; stepping out into the wider world
    • 飛ばし とばし Listen selling or divesting in unwanted stocks; hiding bad loans
    • 宇宙飛行士 うちゅうひこうし Listen astronaut
    • 飛び出し とびだし Listen jumping out; running out (e.g. into the street); dashing out
    • 飛び出す とびだす Listen to jump out; to leap out; to fly out

  • Four-character idioms with 飛

    • 暗中飛躍 あんちゅうひやく Listen behind-the-scenes maneuvering; behind-the-scenes manoeuvering; secret maneuvers
    • 流言飛語 りゅうげんひご Listen false rumour (rumor); groundless rumour; canard
    • 造言飛語 ぞうげんひご Listen wild rumor; wild rumour
    • 雌伏雄飛 しふくゆうひ Listen biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish
    • 雲煙飛動 うんえんひどう Listen flying clouds and drifting haze; magnificent calligraphy; vivid penmanship
    • 飛竜乗雲 ひりゅうじょううん Listen hero that seizes the moment and rises

  • Tattoo check: 飛

    • Verified meaning: fly, soar
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あすか, とび, とびさき, とぶ)
    • Also carries these associations: swift

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 飛

    Given names 飛(あすか)Listen 飛(とぶ)Listen 飛(ひ)Listen 飛(ふぇい)Listen

    Surnames 飛(とび)Listen 飛(とびさき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fly; skip (pages); scatter

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    fly; go quickly; dart; high; Kangxi radical 183

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to fly

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to fly, to dart; high

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Birds and insects with wings, flapping their wings to rise high is called 飛. | Describing something fast as 飛. As in 飛報 (rapid report), 飛遞 (express delivery). | Unfounded words. As in anonymous letters are called 飛書, rumors are called 飛語. Sometimes written as 蜚.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hi(ヒ) ヒ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    to.basu(と-ばす) と-ばす

    tobu(と-ぶ) と-ぶ

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    飛 (tobu)

  • Related Keywords

    fly soar swift high unfounded jump leap air ascend aviation bird flight float glide hover launch levitate rise takeoff wing

Sentences including 飛

  • How many hours does it take to go to okinawa by plane?

  • The plane will take off in one hour.

  • The plane took off at exactly ten o'clock.

  • I'm sure he'll catch at this offer.

  • I arrived just in time for the plane.

  • The plane is now operational.

  • He burst into the room.

  • They are going off by plane tomorrow.

  • That plane will take off at five.

  • I flew to osaka yesterday.

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