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疑

yí

doubt

Pictograph of a person holding onto a staff, looking to the side with his mouth open, doubtful of which direction to go. The 龰 (foot) component was added later to indicate movement, and the 牛 component was added to hint at the sound.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a person standing up, holding onto a staff, with their mouth open and looking to the side.

牛 sound component

牛  Sound component

niú

  

cow

龰 meaning component

龰  Meaning component

zhǐ

  

(foot)

龰 is a component form of 止.

Evolution

疑 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
疑 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
疑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

疑  

yí

doubt, question, suspect; to doubt; to suspect

Most common words with 疑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

怀疑

to doubt (sth)

无疑

no doubt

嫌疑人

a suspect

质疑

to call into question

毫无疑问

certainty

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

礙 擬 凝 癡 嶷

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ](r)ə (< uvular)

ngi

yí

doubt


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 59.0261% of movies

671st most common character in movies

698th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+7591

Shuowen

“疑，惑也。从子、止、匕，矢聲。”


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