noun #5,462

Meanings

  1. 1 apparatus; instrument
  2. 2 ceremony; rite
  3. 3 appearance; bearing

Examples

Yíqì hěn guì.
The instrument is expensive.
Yíshì hěn lóngzhòng.
The ceremony is grand.

Tips

usage
仪器 = instrument, 仪式 = ceremony, 礼仪 = etiquette.

Components

radical
rén
person (left-side form of 人)
Person radical on the left — ceremonies, etiquette, and bearing are all about how a person comports themselves. 仪式 ritual, 礼仪 etiquette, 仪表 appearance — every sense of turns on human presence. Same radical anchors benevolence, ritual, you — all about persons in social form.
phonetic
righteousness; meaning (here phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound: yì → yí with only tone shift. The traditional pair was / — both heavily simplified to / in the 1956 reform, so the modern character carries the y-initial across both halves of the simplification. Same phonetic also gives yì (discuss), yǐ (ant).

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