役 (yì): meaning and stroke order
役 (yì) means forced labor, corvée, obligatory task, military service, to use as servant, to enserf.
役
- Simplified
- 役
- Traditional
- 役 (same form)
- Pinyin
- yì
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Stroke order of 役
役
- yì forced labor; corvée
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 役
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yì
- forced labor
- corvée
- obligatory task
- military service
- to use as servant
- to enserf
- servant (old)
- war
- campaign
- battle
Radical and structure
- 役
- Radical 彳 (Kangxi radical 60) · 7 strokes · 彳 on the left, 殳 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.
Words with 役
- 衙役 yá yì bailiff of feudal yamen
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).