yì
cut off nose
To cut 刂 the nose 鼻; 鼻 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]rə[t]-s | ngijH | yì | cut off the nose |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6733rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+5293 |
Shuowen | “,刑鼻也。从刀,臬聲。《易》曰:‘其人天且。’劓,臬或从鼻。” |
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