沂 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

yí

river in southeast Shandong

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 斤 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

斤 Sound component

jīn

axe

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yí

river in southeast Shandong

Yí

Yi River, Shandong

Most common words with 沂

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	临沂	Linyi prefecture-level city in Shandong
	沂	Yi River, Shandong
	临沂市	Linyi prefecture-level city in Shandong
	沂水	Yishui county in Linyi 臨沂\|临沂[Línyí], Shandong
	沂源县	Yiyuan county in Zibo 淄博[Zībó], Shandong

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ŋ]ər (< uvular)	ngj+j	yí	(mountain and river in Shandong)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3787th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+6C82
Shuowen	“沂，水。出東海費東，西入泗。从水，斤聲。一曰沂水出泰山蓋，青州浸。”

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