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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yí | yi2
English translation
instrument, apparatus; ceremony, rites

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

Contains the radical

rén

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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person

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

亻義

Semantic compound

rén

Phonetic compound

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
仪式 yíshì ceremony儀式
rites
仪器 yíqì instrument儀器
礼仪 lǐ yí etiquette禮儀
仪表 yí biǎo appearance儀表
殡仪馆 bìn yí guǎn the undertaker's殯儀館
扫描仪 sǎo miáo yí scanner (device)掃描儀
仪表盘 yí biǎo pán dashboard儀表盤
吴仪 Wú Yí Wu Yi (1938-), one of four vice-premiers of the PRC State Council吳儀
司仪 sī yí master of ceremonies (MC)司儀
心仪 xīn yí to admire心儀
投影仪 tóu yǐng yí projector投影儀
仪态 yí tài bearing儀態
地球仪 dì qiú yí globe地球儀
质谱仪 zhì pǔ yí mass spectrometer質譜儀
仪仗队 yí zhàng duì honor guard儀仗隊
溥仪 Pǔ yí Puyi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci's biopic The Last Emperor溥儀
仪征 Yí zhēng Yizheng county level city in Yangzhou 揚州|扬州 Yáng zhōu [Yáng​zhōu], Jiangsu儀征
仪容 yí róng appearance儀容
检测仪 jiǎn cè yí sensor檢測儀
光谱仪 guāng pǔ yí spectrometer光譜儀
威仪 wēi yí majestic presence威儀

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