in sequence

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
大 meaning component

  Meaning component

dài

  

big

亦 sound component

  Sound component

  

also

Evolution

奕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

in sequence, orderly; abundant; graceful

Most common words with 奕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

神采奕奕

radiating health and vigor

陈奕迅

Eason Chan (1974-), Hong Kong pop singer and actor

abundant

卫奕信

David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1935-), British diplomat and China expert, Governor of Hong Kong 1986-1992

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ](r)Ak

yek

great, ample (redupl.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.5766% of movies

3327th most common character in movies

3026th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5955

Shuowen

“奕,大也。从大,亦聲。《詩》曰:‘奕奕梁山。’”


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