meaning; righteousness; justice

HSK 5 #208

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 208th character
Radical ⼃ (4.2)
Strokes 3
Index # 57
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

义 yì
  1. 1. meaning
  2. 2. righteousness
  3. 3. justice
  4. 4. relationship
  5. 5. friendship
  6. 6. adopted
  7. 7. foster (father etc)
  8. 8. artificial (tooth, limb etc)
  9. 9. surname Yi
  10. 10. TW abbr. for yì dà lì, Italy

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Words containing 义

Word Meaning
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
Shin'ŭiju, capital of North Pyong'an Province, North Korea
Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory
to reason with sb; to lecture
loyal (idiom); affectionate and true
meaningful; to have meaning; to have significance
statistically significant
to misread by taking words too literally
People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)
departmental selfishness; selfish departmentalism
sworn brotherhood of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei
sworn brotherhood; make a sworn pact
extremism
minimalism
righteous struggle
self-appointed moral arbiter; TW sanctimonious person
Justicialist Party
Wuchang Uprising, 1911 revolt ending Qing
Wuyi county in Jinhua jīn huá, Zhejiang
Wuyi county in Jinhua jīn huá, Zhejiang
historical materialism (Marx's theory of history)
historic significance
Cai Dongfan novel series on Chinese dynasties
figurative meaning (of a word)