yì
wings
Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 異 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 翼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
wing | ||
prudent | ||
the right flank | ||
left-wing (political) | ||
wing (of an aircraft) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢʷrəp (dialect: *-p > *-k) | yik | yì | wing |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.7115% of movies
2094th most common character in movies
1294th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+7FFC |
Shuowen | “,翄也。从飛,異聲。翼,篆文从羽。” |
Sources
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