yì
friendship
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 宜 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 誼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
companionship | ||
club | ||
friendship | ||
friendship | ||
friendly match |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.5467% of movies
1972nd most common character in movies
2136th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8ABC |
Shuowen | “誼，人所宜也。从言，从宜，宜亦聲。” |
Sources
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