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Mythic Mandarin

义 (yì): meaning and stroke order

义 (yì) means justice, righteousness, meaning, foster (father etc), adopted.

义

Simplified
义
Traditional
義
Pinyin
yì

Stroke order of 义

义

  • Yì surname Yi; (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
  • yì justice; righteousness
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 義

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 义

  1. yì Traditional 義
    • justice
    • righteousness
    • meaning
    • foster (father etc)
    • adopted
    • artificial (tooth, limb etc)
    • relationship
    • friendship
  2. Yì Traditional 義
    • surname Yi
    • (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])

Radical and structure

义
Radical 丶 (Kangxi radical 3) · 3 strokes · built from 乂 and 丶

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 义

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).