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- to not be; not
- wrong; incorrect
- non-; un-; in-; de-
- to reproach; to blame
- (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- (math.) (of a set) non-empty; (computing) (of a data structure) non-empty
Trad. 單非
- a couple in which one of the spouses is not a Hong Kong citizen
Trad. 韓非
- Han Fei, also known as Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3] (c. 280-233 BC), Legalist philosopher of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- improper
- presumptuous
- assuming
- overstepping one's bounds
- also written 非分[fei1 fen4]
- improper
- presumptuous
- assuming
- overstepping one's bounds
- also written 非份[fei1 fen4]
- Li Gefei (active c. 1090), Northern Song writer and father of southern Song female poet Li Qingzhao 李清照
Trad. 韓非子
- another name for Han Fei 韓非|韩非[Han2 Fei1], Legalist philosopher (c. 280-233 BC)
- Han Feizi, book of Legalist Philosophy authored by Han Fei 韓非|韩非[Han2 Fei1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
Trad. 非國大
- African National Congress, ANC
- abbr. for 非洲人國民大會|非洲人国民大会[Fei1 zhou1 ren2 guo2 min2 da4 hui4]
Trad. 非常感謝
- extremely grateful; very thankful
Trad. 非槓桿化
- deleveraging (i.e. paying off part of a leverage loan)
Trad. 死於非命
- violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster
- an unnatural death
- not to be censured too strictly (idiom)
- not altogether inexcusable
- understandable
- Facebook (Internet slang, pun reading "you must die")
Trad. 非異人任
- to bear one's own responsibilities and not pass them to others (idiom)
Trad. 無可非議
- irreproachable (idiom)
- nothing blameworthy about it at all
Trad. 文過飾非
- (idiom) to cover up one's faults; to whitewash
Trad. 顛倒是非
- (idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead
Trad. 胡作非為
- to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
Trad. 非親非故
- lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom)
- fig. unrelated to one another in any way
Trad. 聖索非亞
- Hagia Sophia (Greek: Holy wisdom)
- apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
Trad. 非都會郡
- non-metropolitan county (England)
Trad. 非驢非馬
- neither fish nor fowl
- resembling nothing on earth
- black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
Trad. 所言非虛
- (after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
Trad. 所託非人
- to entrust sth to the wrong person and get let down
- to indulge in fantasy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild
- completely correcting one's former misdeeds (idiom); to repent past mistakes and turn over a new leaf
- a reformed character
Trad. 蘇非主義
- Sufism (Islamic mystic tradition)
Trad. 掃黃打非
- to eradicate pornography and illegal publications
Trad. 布氏非鯽
- zebra tilapia
- Tilapia buttikoferi (zoology)
- unable to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)
- to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people
- to tell tales
- to make mischief
Trad. 薩非王朝
- Persian Safavid Dynasty 1501-1722
- lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits
- pros and cons
- unable to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)
- nothing remains the same (idiom); change beyond recognition
Trad. 為非作歹
- to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor
- evildoer
- to perpetrate outrages
- compelled by the circumstances (to do sth)
- (have) no other choice (but do sth)
- (used as a pun in romance) can't help but fall in love
- (idiom) the place is unchanged, but the faces are different
- lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom)
- between laughter and tears
- (idiom) things are very different now; times have changed
- to stir up trouble
- to provoke angry exchange
Trad. 答非所問
- (idiom) to sidestep the question
- to answer evasively
Trad. 非你莫屬
- it's yours exclusively (idiom)
- you are the one
- only you deserve it
- only you can do it
- the Philistines, who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century BC
Trad. 積非成是
- a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth
Trad. 齊大非偶
- too rich to be a good match (in marriage) (idiom)
Trad. 挑撥是非
- to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people
- to tell tales
- to make mischief
Trad. 齊大非耦
- variant of 齊大非偶|齐大非偶[qi2 da4 fei1 ou3]
Trad. 非富則貴
- see 非富即貴|非富即贵[fei1 fu4 ji2 gui4]
Trad. 非政府組織
- non-governmental organization (NGO)
Trad. 非條件反射
- unconditioned reflex (physiology)
Trad. 非歐幾何學
- non-Euclidean geometry
Trad. 非洲單源說
- single origin out of Africa (current mainstream theory of human evolution)
Trad. 非洲錐蟲病
- sleeping sickness
- African trypanosomiasis
Trad. 非營利組織
- nonprofit organization
Trad. 非盈利組織
- erroneous variant of 非營利組織|非营利组织[fei1 ying2 li4 zu3 zhi1]
Trad. 非相對論性
- non-relativistic (physics)
Trad. 非線性光學
- nonlinear optics (physics)
Trad. 東非共同體
- East African Community
Trad. 東非大地塹
- Great East African rift valley
Trad. 東非大裂谷
- East African Rift Valley
Trad. 中非共和國
- Central African Republic