yì
service
Original meaning:
to command
Depicts a person (亻) being controlled by a weapon (殳). Based on the original meaning "to command". The meaning later shifted to "servant" and "service".
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernyì
service; a servant, laborer; to serve; forced labor; corvée; obligatory task; military service; to use as servant; to enserf; servant (old); war; campaign; battle
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
military campaign | ||
to demobilize | ||
to serve in the army | ||
corvée | ||
to enslave |
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢʷek | ywek | yì | war expedition; service |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.6268% of movies
1924th most common character in movies
1245th most common character in books
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5F79 |
Shuowen | “役，戍邊也。从殳，从彳。，古文役从人。” |
