遺 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yí

lose, leave behind

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 貴 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

貴 Sound component

guì

expensive

遺 and 貴 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.遺 /*[ɢ](r)uj-s/, /*[ɢ](r)uj/
貴 /*kuj-s/

Evolution

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular 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 遺

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

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	遗
Unicode	U+907A
Shuowen	“遺，亡也。从辵，聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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