noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the Yi River (in Shandong)

Examples

Yí hé fāyuán yú Shāndōng, liúrù Jiāngsū.
The Yi River rises in Shandong and flows into Jiangsu.
Yí méng dìqū shì zhòngyào de gémìng gēnjùdì.
The Yimeng area was an important revolutionary base.

Tips

culture
Almost always a proper noun for the Yi River in Shandong. It gives names to the city and the mountain region, well known as a Communist base area during the revolutionary period.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
The three-drop water radical, the left-side form of . It marks as the name of a river.
phonetic
jīn
axe; catty (weight)
Provides the sound. Standalone is jīn, shifted here to yí. It serves only as a phonetic, with no axe meaning in this river name.

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