Chinese Character Wiki
依

yī

rely on

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 衣 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

衣 sound component

衣  Sound component

yī, yì

  

clothes

Evolution

依 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
依 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

依  

yī

rely on, be set in; consent, obey a wish; to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to; in the light of

Most common words with 依
Freq.
Word
Meaning

依然

still

依靠

to depend on

依

to depend on

依据

basis

依旧

as before

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔəj

'j+j

yī

lean upon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.6537% of movies

1148th most common character in movies

568th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+4F9D

Shuowen

“依，倚也。从人，衣聲。”


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