yī
descriptive of creaking
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 伊 represents the sound. Simplified form of 吚.
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ʔ]ij | 'jij | yī | forced laugh |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4740th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+54BF |
Sources
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