Original meaning: to bestow, give
Upside-down version of 益 , depicting food or drink being poured from a container ( 皿 ). Based on the original meaning "to bestow, give", now written as 賜 . The meaning later shifted to "exchange", "change", and "easy".
皿 Iconic
Depicts a vessel for holding food or drink.
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to
皿 than it was in ancient scripts.
◎ Iconic
Depicts food or drink being poured from a container.
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC) Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC) Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD) Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD) 易 Regular script Modern Regular script
Modern change; easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
surname Yi; abbr. for 易經 | 易经 [Yìjīng] , the Book of Changes
Freq. Word Meaning
容易
easy
交易
business deal
易
easy
贸易
(commercial) trade
轻易
easily
Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)
裼 鬄
Sound component in 11 characters (3 verified)
賜 赐 踢 錫 锡 惕 剔 蜴 裼 埸 鬄
