third person pronoun

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

尹 sound component

  Sound component

yǐn

  

govern

Evolution

伊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
伊 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
伊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
伊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
伊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

third person pronoun; he, she, this, that; (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she"); second person singular pronoun ("you"); (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she"); (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning; that (preceding a noun)

 

surname Yi; abbr. for 伊拉克[Yī​lā​kè], Iraq; abbr. for 伊朗[Yī​lǎng], Iran

Most common words with 伊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伊拉克

Iraq

伊朗

Iran

that (preceding a noun)

伊丽莎白

Elizabeth (person name)

伊斯兰

Islam

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔij

'jij

this


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 24.5395% of movies

631st most common character in movies

761st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+4F0A

Shuowen

“伊,殷聖人阿衡,尹治天下者。从人,从尹。”


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