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藝

yì

skill, art

Original meaning: 

to plant

Originally written as 埶. The 艹 component was added later, based on the original meaning "to plant". The meaning later shifted to "skill" and "art".

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

埶 sound,meaning component

埶  Sound Meaning component

yì

  

art, skill

云 unknown component

云  Unknown component

yún

  

clouds

Corruption of the bottom part of the 丮 component in 埶.

Evolution

藝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
藝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
藝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

艺 (藝) 

yì

art; talent, ability; craft; skill

Most common words with 藝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

艺术

art

艺术家

artist

艺

skill

工艺

arts and crafts

文艺

literature and art

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

囈

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋet-s (MC I!)

ngjiejH

yì

cultivation, art, skill


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 29.9215% of movies

1057th most common character in movies

786th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

艺

Unicode

U+85DD


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