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

Stroke order

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Words containing 义

Word Meaning
Xinyi or Hsinyi district of Taipei City tái běi shì, Taiwan
Xinyi or Hsini township in Nantou county nán tóu xiàn, central Taiwan
hypocrisy; pretended righteousness
loan meaning of a character by sound
Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician
connotation; (semantics) connotative meaning
National Tree Planting Day in China
a citizen's duty; civil obligation
the Communist Youth League
separatism
altruism
to break all friendly ties
Liu Yiqing, Chinese writer of the 5th century
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
interpretation of the divinatory trigrams
impressionism
antisemitism
antonymous; (genetic) antisense
antonym; character with opposite meaning
ancient meaning; original or etymological meaning of a word
compound word such as jiào shì, guó jiā, but unlike méi guī, whose meaning is related to the component hanzi
tautology
synonym
synonym
nominally