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
adopted daughter
to talk nonsense (idiom); frivolous talk
humanism
speak up for justice; defend what is right
protectionism
reckless adventurism; risky, impulsive behavior
materialism; belief that matter is basic
main points of a piece of writing; righteousness
positivism; empiricism
extended meaning (of an expression); derived sense
money worship
original meaning; literal sense
the Boxers (history); the Righteous and Harmonious Fists
prosthesis; artificial limb
sense (of a word)
artificial tooth
militarism
Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel
Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People
Leninism
original meaning
internationalism
polysemous word; polyseme
meaning of a character
sectarianism