meaning; righteousness; justice

Character data

Radical ⽺ (123.7)
Strokes 13
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

義 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

Words containing 義

Word Meaning
separatism
Leninism
altruism
egoism
to break all friendly ties
Liu Yiqing, Southern Dynasties writer
utilitarianism
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
interpretation of the divinatory trigrams
impressionism
original meaning
antisemitism
antonymous; (genetic) antisense
antonym; character with opposite meaning
antonym
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
synonymous
tautology
synonym
synonym
synonym
nominal; in name; name
nominally
nominal value