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
nominal value
nominal bank account
pacifism
idealism; stressing ideas, not material reality
Enlightenment (philosophy)
unilateralism
Jiayi or Chiayi city and county in west Taiwan
Chiayi city in central Taiwan
Jiayi or Chiayi county in west Taiwan
nationalism; statism
Nazism; national socialism
the international communist movement; Comintern
favoring one's local region; regionalism
lookism
multiculturalism
polysemy; ambiguity (linguistics); polysemous
equivocality
persisting in evil brings about self-destruction (idiom)
character having several readings and meanings
Greater Han nationalism
male chauvinism
male chauvinism
male chauvinist
nudism
defeatism