The Chinese Radical: 弗




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Meaning
not, negation    弗

Explanation A bow 弓 with two 丨丨 tendons is to be negated.

Used in these characters:
HSK 4
expenses, costs, spending, fee
fèi
Top: not, negation 弗 (A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.), below: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money)
The negation (= the opposite) of my money are my: expenses.  
HSK 5
Buddha, Buddhism
fó, fú
Left: person 亻, right: deny, negation 弗 (A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.)
A person of denial (of needs) is the (godlike) buddha.  
HSK 6
to boil, bubbling up
fèi
Left: water 氵, right: denial, not 弗 (here not etymological: flow water heater with heater coil 弓 and pipes || that are streamed through)
The water in the boiler is boiled.  
no HSK
not, negation, denial


A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.  
no HSK
hamadryad baboon
fèi
Left: wild animal 犭(dog on the hind legs), right: denial 弗 (A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.)
The animal that (is playful) and makes denials is the baboon.  
no HSK
to brush away, shake off

Left: hand 扌, right: denial 弗 (A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.)
The hand that "denies" brushes away.  
no HSK
flour, fluorine (chemistry)

Left: gas 气, right: denial 弗 (A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.)
(Because it is poisonous:) The gas that is to be denied is: the flourine.  

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