Chinese Character Wiki

苡

yǐ

barley

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

grass

以 sound component

以  Sound component

yǐ

  

by means of

Evolution

苡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
苡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

苡  

yǐ

barley; common plantain (Plantago major)

Most common words with 苡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

苡

common plantain (Plantago major)

薏苡

Chinese pearl barley

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ləʔ

yiX

yǐ

Plantago


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4874th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82E1

Shuowen

“苢，芣苢，一名馬舄。其實如李，令人宜子。从艸，聲。《周書所說》。”


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