noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the Yi River (in Shandong)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Yí hé fāyuán yú Shāndōng, liúrù Jiāngsū.
The Yi River rises in Shandong and flows into Jiangsu.
HSK 7-9
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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