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非常

fēi cháng

HSK 1 · word 107 of 3,000

Meaning

• very; really
• unusual; extraordinary

Example sentence

Characters in 非常

• 非 fēi to not be; not
• 常 cháng always

非 not plus 常 ordinary. What is out of the ordinary is extreme, so the word means very — literally un-usually.

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