yì
spy on
Simplified form of 睪. Depicts shooting an arrow (矢) into the eye (目).
Components
又 Simplified component
yòu
(hand), again
Shorthand for the 目 component in the traditional character 睪.
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 |
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