"Yi" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yī one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
 yǐ to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)
 yì idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate
 yǐ already / to stop / then / afterwards
 yì justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship
 yì to comment on / to discuss / to suggest
 yì easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
 yī medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat
 yī to depend on / to comply with or listen to sb / according to / in the light of
 yì benefit / profit / advantage / beneficial / to increase / to add / all the more
 yí (bound form) to doubt / to suspect
 yì different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate
 yī clothes / CL:件[jian4] / Kangxi radical 145
 yì to dress / to wear / to put on (clothes)
 yī (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that
 yì skill / art
 yí to move / to shift / to change / to alter / to remove
 yì also
 yí (bound form) to leave behind
亿 yì 100 million
 yì to translate / to interpret
 yì forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle
 yǐ horse's tail / pointed posterior section of a locust etc
 yí apparatus / rites / appearance / present / ceremony
 yí proper / should / suitable / appropriate
 yì variant of 刈[yi4] / variant of 乂[yi4]
 yì wing / area surrounding the bullseye of a target / to assist / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy / old variant of 翌
 yì to recollect / to remember / memory
 yǐ chair
 yì to restrain / to restrict / to keep down / or
 yì (bound form) epidemic / plague
 yǐ second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
 yì firm and resolute / staunch
 yǐ classical final particle, similar to modern 了[le5]
 yì friendship / also pr. [yi2]
 yí mother's sister / aunt
 yí non-Han people, esp. to the East of China / barbarians / to wipe out / to exterminate / to tear down / to raze
 yì to escape / leisurely / outstanding
 yì to overflow / (literary) excessive / old variant of 鎰|镒[yi4]
 yǐ ant
 yí harmony / pleased
 yǐ to lean on / to rely upon
 yì (bound form) descendants / (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2yi4] "of Chinese descent") / (literary) distant lands / (literary) fringe / periphery
 yì (literary) exemplary / virtuous
 yí (literary) chin / jaw / (literary) to foster / to nurture / to protect
 yì continuous / to interpret / to unravel / to draw silk (old)
 yì abundant / graceful
 yí expression of surprise
 yì Japanese variant of 藝|艺[yi4]
 yì city / village
 yí pancreas
 yì to go (to visit a superior) / one's current attainment in learning or art
 yí to present / to bequeath
 yī to greet by raising clasped hands
 yí (archaic) wine vessel / (archaic) sacrificial vessel / (literary) rule / convention
驿 yì post horse / relay station
 yī ripple
 yì bright / tomorrow
 yì (bound form) chest / breast / (bound form) inner feelings / subjective
 Yí Yi River, Shandong
 yì lost / missing / forsaken / dissolute / (of a woman) beautiful / fault / offense / hermit / variant of 逸[yi4]
 yì high and steep
 yì smiling face
 yì to excel / to surpass / to be scattered / variant of 逸[yi4], leisurely
 yì to glow / to flash
 yì to shoot
 yí (archaic) to present / to bequeath / variant of 貽|贻[yi2]
 yì ancient name for go (Chinese board game)
 yì assist / ready to fly / respect
 yì to talk in one's sleep
 yī yeah (interjection of approval) / to belch
 yì used in 蜥蜴[xi1yi4]
 yī one (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
 yì see 薏苡[yi4 yi3]
 yí used in 逶迤[wei1yi2]
 yǐ extending to
 yī (onom.) to squeak
 yì mow
 yī iridium (chemistry)
 yǐ used in 旖旎[yi3ni3]
羿 Yì surname Yi / name of a legendary archer (also called 后羿[Hou4 Yi4])
 yǐ common plantain (Plantago major)
 yì (literary) to die by hanging or strangulation
 yì feather screen / to screen / to shade / cataract
 yì ancient unit of weight equal to 20 or 24 liang 兩|两[liang3]
 yí maltose syrup
 yì name of hills in Shandong
 yí bruise / sores
 yì anxiety / worry
 yì to learn / to practice or study (old)
 yī (interj.)
 yì (literary) to scoop up / to ladle out / (literary) to draw toward oneself
 yī interjection
 yǐ yttrium (chemistry)
 yì used in 癔病[yi4bing4] and 癔症[yi4zheng4]
 yì strong / brave
 yī excellent / precious / rare / fine / (used in given names)
 yí place name
 yí to weed
 yì pleased / rejoice
 yí name of a mountain in Hunan
 yí bridge, bank
 yì row of dancers at sacrifices
 yì bury / sacrifice
 yì border
 yì cut off the nose
 yī black and shining ebony
 yí to shift / to transfer
 yǐ ant / variant of 蟻|蚁[yi3]
 yǐ pleasing / respectful manner
 yì ytterbium (chemistry)
 yì to exterminate
 yǐ bite
 yì to spy out
 yì Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
 yì skill / art
 yí small house connected to large one
 yí arrogant / mean
 yí to promote / to reward
 yǐ to moor a boat to the bank
 yì to wrap and bind / damp / dripping / wet / a book bag
 yì (literary) honeycomb / beehive
 yì variant of 臆[yi4]
 yí variant of 迤[yi2]
 yǐ variant of 迤[yi3]
 yī woodlouse
 yī widgeon
 yì breathing of pigs
 yì rancid
 yì fishhawk bow or prow
 yì echiuroid (spoon worm)
 yì to regulate / to govern / to control / to mow
𬟁 yì see 虉草|𬟁草[yi4 cao3]
 yī excellent / precious / rare
 yī interj. / sighing sound
 yí washbasin with a tubular handle
 yí northeastern corner of a room
 yí place name
 yí (tree)
 yí (literary) (botany) (a species of linden whose timber was used to make coffins in ancient times)
 yí (tree)
 yí clothes-horse
 yí snivel
 yí place name
 yí elixirs / sweet wine
 yǐ to sob / wail
 yǐ screen
 yǐ a swallow (bird)
 yì covetous / greedy / stingy
 yì toil
 yì palpitation / short breathing
 yì mist rolling upwards
 yì skill / art
 yì canopy
 yì to be weary of
 yì obscure / sun hidden by clouds
 yì post for tethering animals
 yì oar / stand for correcting a bow
 yì Quercus glauca
 yì damp / moist
 yì (person)
 yì blazing / radiant
 yì bow of a Chinese boat
 yì sleeve of dress
 yī a black stone like jade / jet
 yí (literary) class / category / (literary) to place / to lay out
 yí iron / strong, solid, firm
 yǐ rings on the yokes
 yì licentious, libertine, dissipate
 yì hawk
 yì a swallow
 yì black
 yī Japanese variant of 壹[yi1]
 yì compliant / yielding / easygoing
 yī archaic variant of 壹 / banker's anti-fraud numeral one
 yì erroneous variant of 拽[ye4]
 yí shadbush or shadberry (genus Amelanchier) / name for a stable during the Han Dynasty
 yī old name of a river in Henan, now written 伊河
 yì variant of 翳, feather screen / to screen / to shade / cataract
 yì Japanese variant of 譯|译[yi4]
 yī variant of 噫, yeah (interjection of approval) / to belch
 yì Japanese variant of 驛|驿[yi4]
 yī wigeon (Anas penelope, a Eurasian duck) / seagull (arch.)
 yī the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]
 yì (literary) toilsome / laborious / (of an edge etc) worn out / blunt
 yí (of the sun) declining
 yī numeral 1 in the Suzhou numeral system 蘇州碼子|苏州码子[Su1zhou1 ma3zi5]
 yì old variant of 役[yi4]
 yì old variant of 逸[yi4] / leisurely
 yí variant of 彝[yi2]
 yì yurt / (literary) respectful / prudent
 yí happy / joyous
 yǐ a kind of metal or jade ornament worn in ancient times to ward off evil spirits
 yǐ variant of 艤|舣[yi3]
 yì (archaic) (meaning unclear) / (final particle)
 yī variant of 醫|医[yi1]
 yì to blaze / (used in given names)
 yí earthen jar
 yì see 虉草[yi4 cao3]
 yí (of animal horn) sharp
 yì fine wine / to award with (food and drink)
 yì a kind of aquatic bird
 yì pheasant / turkey / old variant of 鷁|鹢[yi4]
𬺈 Yǐ to bite
𫖮 yǐ pleasing / respectful manner
 yì used in 解㑊[xie4 yi4]
 yì (literary) the throat / (literary) (military) choke point
 yí used in 委蛇[wei1yi2]
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