virtuous

Evolution

㦤 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
㦤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㦤 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

 

virtuous, especially of women, admirable, esteemed, excellent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*q<r>i[t]-s

'ijH

excellent


Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Unicode

U+39A4

Shuowen

“懿,專久而美也,从壹,从恣省聲。”


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