yì
benefit
Original meaning:
overflow
Depicts food or drink filling up a container (皿). Based on the original meaning "overflow", now written as 溢. The meaning later shifted to "increase" and "benefit".
Components
Evolution

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
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*q[i]k (dialect: *-ik > *-ek) | 'jiek | yì | increase |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 18.8371% of movies
1589th most common character in movies
649th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+76CA |
Shuowen | “益,饒也。从水、皿。皿,益之意也。” |
Sources
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