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遗

yí

lose, leave behind

Simplified form of 遺. Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 贵 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

贵 sound component

贵  Sound component

guì

  

expensive

Evolution

遗 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
遗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
遗 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
遗 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

遗 (遺) 

yí

lose; articles lost; omit; to lose; to leave behind; to omit; to bequeath; sth lost; involuntary discharge (of urine etc)

Most common words with 遗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

遗憾

regret

遗产

heritage

遗传

heredity

遗忘

to forget

遗嘱

will

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ](r)uj-s

ywijH

wèi

to present

*[ɢ](r)uj

ywij

yí

leave; reject


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 47.4612% of movies

894th most common character in movies

892nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

遺

Unicode

U+9057


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