abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must

= + 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a negative film (photography)

= + 丿 + : Frankenstein's monster made an effort to photograph the Eiffel Tower, but now his negative is a big mess. In front of the tower her set up a camera on a Cartesian coordinate system as a tripod, and he attached a banana and a dinosaur bone to the camera so that he can finely tune the angles. All was for naught as he now holds the messed up negative in his hands.

非 character breakdown

surname San
three / 3

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Cartesian coordinate system with three (三) axes. Socrates (s-) is performing in front of the anthill (-an1). He created an electrical flute by attaching a large capacitor (二) to the flute (一), so that he can get the attention of all the people. Moreover, he's balancing on a Cartesian coordinate system (三). Unfortunately, only three (三) people stop to watch the performance.
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).

Characters with 非 as component

a row / a line / to set in order / to arrange / to line up / to eliminate / to drain / to push open / platoon / raft / classifier for lines, rows etc

= + : Pinocchio is trying to save a messed up negative he obtained in the airplane's kitchen. He carefully unrolls the negative using a toy claw to line it up and see what can be saved.
to lean against or on / to stand by the side of / to come near to / to depend on / to trust / to fuck (vulgar) / traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)

= + : Karl Marx changed the aorta's bathroom into a photo laboratory and is experimenting with a long negative. He wants to develop it into a movie, so he set up a LED display leaning against the wall and put the negative on top of it. As his messages run across the LED display he hopes that the negative will develop into a video, broadcasting his messages of revolution to the whole world: if you want to save the people, rely on the worker's party!
(used in loanwords for its phonetic value)

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) holds a negative (非) into the light in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1) and discovers the most beautiful mandarin (口) he has ever seen. It is so wonderful it makes is endorphin (啡) go all crazy.
sad / sadness / sorrow / grief

= + : Beelzebub (b) is looking through his old negatives (非) in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1). He is reminded of his youth and his lost loves and his heart (心) is filled with sadness and grief (悲). His heart gets so heavy that he drops it on the floor, just for a moment to get some relief.
lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people

= + : Beelzebub (b) successfully affected the lives of whole generations (辈) by alluring them with expensive cabriolets (车). In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) he is sitting in one of his cabriolets and looking through a lifetime of negatives (非), each taken when he spoiled another victim.
guilt / crime / fault / blame / sin

= + : A terrible crime has been committed in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom: Zapatista Zebra lies dead on the floor, trapped in a fishing net. What has happened here? The answer may be saved on a negative which has been left carelessly on the floor. What has been photographed with this negative?
variant of 罪[zui4], crime

= + : A terrible crime has been committed in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom: Zapatista Zebra lies dead on the floor, trapped in a fishing net. What has happened here? The answer may be saved on a negative which has been left carelessly on the floor. What has been photographed with this negative?
bandit / (literary) not

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) caught a bandit (匪) in a metal box (匚) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3). Right now he is busy analyzing the negatives (非) of all the surveillance cameras while the bandit is waiting in the metal box.
irresolute

= + : Pinocchio (p) wants to sell his black sneakers (彳) on the internet, but he is very irresolute (徘) about how to photograph them. In the airplane's kitchen (ai2) he moves back and forth (徘) to find the best shooting angle until he uses up his last negative (非).
dark red / purple silk
slander

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is regularly slandering (诽) around by posting negatives (非) on the advertising column (讠) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3).
luxuriant (plant growth) / rich with fragrance / phenanthrene C14H10

= + : In front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1) Frankenstein's Monster (f) succeeded to process a bunch of negatives (非) and obtained pure phenanthrene (菲). It is very rich in fragrance (菲) and smells like sheets of artificial lawn (艹).
poor / humble / unworthy / radish (old)

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) processed a bunch of negatives (非) to obtain phenanthrene (菲) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) but failed. His solution is very impure. Instead of artificial lawn (艹) it smells like radish (菲), and so Frankenstein's Monster knows his solution is unworthy (菲).

Words with 非

things are very different now (idiom) / times have changed
apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
China-Africa (relations) / Central Africa / Central African Republic
to not really understand / to half-understand
like a smile yet not a smile (idiom)
not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical) / to respond in kind
lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal
Asia, Africa and Latin America
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])

Sentences with 非

zhè
táo
fe̅i
tóng
xiǎo
kě
 
 
jiǔ
qia̅n
nián
 
 
ka̅i
hua̅