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
to be close friends
Yi county in Jinzhou jǐn zhōu, Liaoning
Yixianosaurus, small theropod dinosaur
supremely honorable and righteous
righteous deed
vigilante; volunteer (police)
meaning-based translation; loan translation
bazaar
Yima, a county-level city in Henan
Yima city, Sanmenxia, Henan
to meet as volunteers for an uprising
connectionism
custom; user-defined
libertarianism
Freeganism
Xingyi, a city in Guizhou
Xingyi City in Guizhou, China
old democratic revolution
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991
Sufism (Islamic mystic tradition)
fideism; fundamentalism
to be chivalrous
activism
behaviorism
crony capitalism