Chinese Character Wiki

劓

yì

cut off nose

To cut 刂 the nose 鼻; 鼻 also provides the pronunciation

Components
鼻 sound,meaning component

鼻  Sound Meaning component

bí

  

nose

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

Evolution

劓 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
劓 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劓 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
劓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

劓  

yì

cut off nose; cut off the nose

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]rə[t]-s

ngijH

yì

cut off the nose


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6733rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+5293

Shuowen

“，刑鼻也。从刀，臬聲。《易》曰：‘其人天且。’劓，臬或从鼻。”


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