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记忆 (jì yì): meaning and stroke order

记忆 (jì yì) means to remember; to recall, memory.

记忆

Simplified
记忆
Traditional
記憶
Pinyin
jì yì

Stroke order of 记忆

记

  • jì to record; to note
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 記

Stroke by stroke

忆

  • yì to recollect; to remember
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 憶

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 记忆

  1. jì yì Traditional 記憶
    • to remember; to recall
    • memory

Radicals of the characters

记
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 5 strokes · 讠 on the left, 己 on the right
忆
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 4 strokes · 忄 on the left, 乙 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

记忆 in our stories

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  • 实习记者柯雨桐接到了第一个任务：为报纸的“城市记忆”栏目，采访一位在街角修了五十年鞋的老人。

    shíxí jìzhě Kē Yǔtóng jiēdào le dì-yī gè rènwu wèi bàozhǐ de chéngshì jìyì lánmù cǎifǎng yí wèi zài jiējiǎo xiū le wǔshí nián xié de lǎorén

    Trainee reporter Ke Yutong got her first assignment: for the paper's "City Memories" column, interview an old man who had mended shoes on a street corner for fifty years.

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

  • 父亲的记忆是从小事开始消失的：先是找不到钥匙，后来忘了关火，再后来，他在住了三十年的小区里迷了路。

    fùqīn de jìyì shì cóng xiǎoshì kāishǐ xiāoshī de xiānshì zhǎo bú dào yàoshi hòulái wàng le guān huǒ zài hòulái tā zài zhù le sānshí nián de xiǎoqū lǐ mí le lù

    Her father's memory began to vanish with small things: first he couldn't find his keys, then he forgot to turn off the gas, and later he got lost in the estate he had lived in for thirty years.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 记忆

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).