adjective #13,617

Meanings

  1. 1 proper; suitable; appropriate

Examples

Zhèlǐ qìhòu yírén.
The climate here is pleasant.
Piányi de dōngxi bùyīdìng chà.
Cheap things aren't necessarily bad.

Tips

usage
appears in: 便宜 (piányi, cheap), 适宜 (suitable), 宜人 (pleasant). Note: in 便宜 the pronunciation changes to yi (neutral tone). Also seen in the city name .

Components

radical
mián
roof; house (radical)
Top roof radical, three strokes of a sloped house cover. Anchors in the household family. The character originally pictured sacrificial meat on an offering table inside an ancestral hall; ritual fit there gave the modern 'suitable, fitting.' Same family: , , , .
semantic
qiě
moreover; an offering stand
Bottom — originally a pictograph of a tall sacrificial stand stacked with meat offerings (later borrowed for the conjunction 'moreover'). Beneath the roof above, reads as 'offerings properly arranged inside an ancestral hall,' the origin of the modern meaning 'fitting, appropriate, ought to.'

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