yī
rely on
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 衣 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
yī
rely on, be set in; consent, obey a wish; to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to; in the light of
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔəj | 'j+j | yī | lean upon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 33.6537% of movies
1148th most common character in movies
568th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4F9D |
Shuowen | “依,倚也。从人,衣聲。” |
Sources
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