yī
medicine
Original meaning:
quiver
Originally depicted a quiver, a container for arrows. Later repurposed to mean "medicine" as a simplified form of the traditional character 醫.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 66.4905% of movies
290th most common character in movies
482nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+533B |
Shuowen | “医，盛弓弩矢器也。从匸，从矢。” |
Sources
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