yì
also
Pictograph of a person, with two dots at the armpits. Based on the original meaning "armpit", now written as 腋. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Bronze script
Oracle script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
also | ||
awfully | ||
vice versa | ||
to imitate slavishly | ||
to say what everyone says (idiom) |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ](r)Ak | yek | yì | armpit |
*ɢ(r)Ak | yek | yì | also |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1166% of movies
2582nd most common character in movies
886th most common character in books
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4EA6 |
Shuowen | “亦,人之臂亦也。从大,象兩亦之形。” |