yī
medicine
Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 殹 represents the sound. The 酉 component is a pictograph of a container for wine, which is sometimes used for medicinal purposes.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 66.4905% of movies
290th most common character in movies
482nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+91AB |
Shuowen | “醫，治病工也。殹，惡姿也，醫之性然。得酒而使。从酉。王育說。一曰殹，病聲。酒，所以治病也。《周禮》有醫酒。古者巫彭初作醫。” |
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