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儀

yí

ceremony

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 義 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

義 sound component

義  Sound component

yì

  

justice

Evolution

儀 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
儀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
儀 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
儀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仪 (儀) 

yí

ceremony, rites gifts; admire; apparatus; rites; appearance; present; ceremony

Most common words with 儀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

仪式

ceremony

仪

rites

仪器

instrument

礼仪

etiquette

仪表

appearance

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋ(r)aj

ngje

yí

right, proper; ceremony


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 21.0476% of movies

1386th most common character in movies

1283rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

仪

Unicode

U+5100

Shuowen

“儀，度也。从人，義聲。”


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