yì
skill, art
Original meaning:
to plant
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 乙 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "to plant". The meaning later shifted to "skill" and "art". Simplified form of 藝.
Components
Evolution
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 29.9215% of movies
1057th most common character in movies
786th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+827A |
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