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Mythic Mandarin

易 (yì): meaning and stroke order

易 (yì) means easy, amiable, to change, to exchange.

易

Simplified
易
Traditional
易 (same form)
Pinyin
yì

Stroke order of 易

易

  • Yì surname Yi; abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], the Book of Changes
  • yì easy; amiable
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 易

  1. yì
    • easy
    • amiable
    • to change
    • to exchange
    • prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
  2. Yì
    • surname Yi
    • abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], the Book of Changes

Radical and structure

易
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 8 strokes · 日 on top, 勿 below

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.

Words with 易

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).