yí
move, change place
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 多 represents the sound. Alludes to grain moving while it is blown by the wind.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*laj | ye | yí | move (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 37.3699% of movies
1013th most common character in movies
880th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+79FB |
Shuowen | “移,禾相倚移也。从禾,多聲。一曰禾名。” |
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