yì
to command
Original form of 役. Depicts a person (亻) being controlled by a weapon (殳). Based on the original meaning "to command".
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4F07 |
Shuowen | “役，戍邊也。从殳，从彳。，古文役从人。” |
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