É
noun #5,168

Meanings

  1. 1 Russia (short form)
  2. 2 Russian (abbreviation for 俄罗斯)

Examples

Éyǔ hěn nán xué.
Russian is hard to learn.
Tā shì Éguó rén.
She is Russian.

Tips

usage
is the common abbreviation for 俄罗斯 (Éluósī, Russia). Used in compounds like 俄语 (Russian language), 俄国 (Russia/Russian state), (Sino-Russian).

Components

radical
rén
person (left-side form)
Left person radical — the side-form of . Originally meant 'leaning person' (still in 'in a moment, at a tilt of time'); the human radical carried that 'a person inclining' picture. The modern 'Russia' sense is a 19th-century phonetic loan that ignores the original meaning but kept the human radical by graphic accident.
phonetic
I; me
Right component supplies the sound: wǒ → É with vowel and tone shift. Pure phonetic role — the 'I' meaning of plays no part. Same phonetic in ó (oh), É (goose), 饿 È (hungry), É (moth) — a tight É-cluster. The country name 俄罗斯 is a Qing-dynasty transliteration of 'Россия,' shortened to plain in compounds (, 苏俄).

Stroke Order

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