yí
lose, leave behind
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 貴 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ](r)uj-s | ywijH | wèi | to present |
*[ɢ](r)uj | ywij | yí | leave; reject |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 47.4612% of movies
894th most common character in movies
892nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+907A |
Shuowen | “遺,亡也。从辵,聲。” |
Sources
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