yì
spy on
Simplified form of 睪. Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and a remnant of 射 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*laːɡ | jiᴇk̚ | yì | spy on [Zhengzhang] |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+20B24 |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

