Chinese Character Wiki
議

yì

consult

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 義 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

義 sound component

義  Sound component

yì

  

justice

Evolution

議 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
議 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
議 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

议 (議) 

yì

consult, talk over, discuss; to comment on; to discuss; to suggest

Most common words with 議
Freq.
Word
Meaning

建议

to propose

会议

meeting

协议

pact

不可思议

unfathomable

议员

representative

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋ(r)aj-s

ngjeH

yì

discuss


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 68.5888% of movies

457th most common character in movies

368th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

议

Unicode

U+8B70

Shuowen

“議，語也。从言，義聲。”


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