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
vegetarianism
structuralism
to swear brotherhood
appeasement
justice is to be found everywhere (idiom)
traffic auxiliary police (Tw)
righteous man
righteous and courageous; courageous
March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)
volunteer; voluntary worker
compulsory education
the Boxer uprising
Boxer Rebellion
the Boxers (history); the Righteous and Harmonious Fists
free school (old)
righteous anger
feel strong anger at injustice
to speak forcibly out of a sense of righteousness (idiom)
adoptive mother
Yiwu county level city in Jinhua jīn huá, Zhejiang
Yiwu county level city in Jinhua jīn huá, Zhejiang
adoptive parents
argumentation (in a speech or essay)
Yizhu, a township in Chiayi, Taiwan
Yizhu Township, Chiayi, Taiwan