懿 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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yì

virtuous

Components

壹 Sound component

yī

number one

恣 Unknown component

zì

indulge oneself

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yì

virtuous, admirable, esteemed; restrain; virtuous

Most common words with 懿

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	懿	restrain
	司马懿	Sima Yi (179-251), warlord under Cao Cao and subsequently founder of the Jin dynasty
	唐懿宗	Emperor Yizong of Tang (833-873), reign name of eighteenth Tang emperor Li Cui 李漼[LǐCuǐ], reigned 859-873

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ʔ]<r>ik-s	'ijH	yì	repress

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2932nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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