Definition
肥 (féi) is used for fat meat/animals or loose clothing, NOT for people's body weight — for people, use 胖 (pàng). It also means fertile (soil) and serves as a noun for fertilizer/manure. As a verb, it means to fertilize or (slang) to get rich illicitly.
(adj.) fat (of meat/animal)fertile (soil)loose (clothing)(v.) to fertilizealso slang for getting rich illicitly(n.) fertilizermanure
Easily confused
- 吧balook-alike(modal particle) used to indicate a suggestion, a tentative guess, or to soften a statement
- 飞fēisound-aliketo fly
- 把bǎlook-alike(classifier) for things with handles, or for handfuls and bunches
- 非fēisound-alike(verb, formal/literary) to not be; to be not
- 费fèisound-alike(verb) to spend, to consume (time, effort, or money)
- 肺fèisound-alikelung
- 废fèisound-alike(verb) to abolish, to discard, to scrap
Examples
- 肥，。Zhè jiàn chènshān tài féi le, huàn yí jiàn xiǎo diǎn de ba.This shirt is too loose — change to a smaller one.
- 肥，。Zhè zhǒng féi duì cài dì hěn hǎo, néng ràng cài zhǎng de kuài.This kind of fertilizer is good for the vegetable garden and can make the vegetables grow fast.
- 肥。Tā měi zhōu dōu yào gěi huā shī yí cì féi.He fertilizes the flowers once a week.
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