是非

right and wrong / quarrel

Characters and words in 是非

variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a skull, from "to be or not to be".

Sherlock Holmes (sh) starts his day in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) with a mug of coffee (旦). Holding a skull (mnemonic symbol for 是) in his hands, he asks himself "to be, or not to be" (是). He wonders if he can make the skull come back to life using lots of coffee, and injects coffee from his mug into the skull using a syringe (龰).

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a skull, from "to be or not to be".

Sherlock Holmes (sh) watches the Neanderthal Man (人) trying to climb to the sun (日) on a ladder (下) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Sherlock is afraid that he'll open the window, so he puts on a big skull (是) and scares him off.
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.

Words with 是非

to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)
to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief
lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits / pros and cons
trouble spot / sketchy area
to distinguish right from wrong (idiom)
to determine right and wrong based on public opinion (idiom) / Public opinion will judge what's right and wrong.
unable to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)
to stir up trouble
to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief
unable to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)

Sentences with 是非

是非 currently does not appear in any sentence.