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并非 (bìng fēi): meaning and stroke order

并非 (bìng fēi) means really isn't.

并非

Simplified
并非
Traditional
並非
Pinyin
bìng fēi

Stroke order of 并非

并

  • bìng and; furthermore
  • bìng to combine; to amalgamate
  • Bīng short name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 並

Stroke by stroke

非

  • Fēi abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
  • fēi to not be; not; wrong; incorrect
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 并非

  1. bìng fēi Traditional 並非
    • really isn't

Radicals of the characters

并
Radical 干 (Kangxi radical 51) · 6 strokes · 丷 on top, 开 below
非
Radical 非 (Kangxi radical 175) · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

并非 in our stories

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  • 死者的钱袋还挂在腰上，衣服也完好，显然，凶手并非为了钱。

    sǐzhě de qiándài hái guà zài yāo shàng yīfu yě wánhǎo xiǎnrán xiōngshǒu bìngfēi wèile qián

    The dead man's purse still hung at his waist and his clothes were intact; clearly the killer had not been after money.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 并非

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).