邑 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yì

city

Pictograph of a person (卩) outside a city wall (囗). Appears as a component in the right side of characters as ⻏.

Components

囗 Iconic component

wéi

surround

Depicts a city wall.

卩 Iconic component

jié

person kneeling

Depicts a kneeling person.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 卩 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

邑

yì

area, district, city, state; city; village

Most common words with 邑

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	邑	city
	大邑	Dayi county in Chengdu 成都[Chéngdū], Sichuan
	干邑	Cognac
	昌邑	Changyi county level city in Weifang 濰坊\|潍坊[Wéifāng], Shandong
	大邑县	Dayi county in Chengdu 成都[Chéngdū], Sichuan

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (1 verified)

巷扈邕

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

悒挹

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

巷

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*q(r)[ə]p	'ip	yì	city, town

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3132nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+9091
Shuowen	“邑，國也。从口。先王之制，尊卑有大小，从卪。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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