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漪

yī
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 ripple
  2. 2 small wave on water

Characters

漪
yī
ripple

Examples

HSK 7-9
微风拂过，湖面泛起层层涟漪。
Wēifēng fú guò, húmiàn fànqǐ céngcéng liányī.
A gentle breeze stirred faint ripples on the lake.
HSK 7-9
这消息在众人心中激起了涟漪。
Zhè xiāoxi zài zhòngrén xīnzhōng jīqǐ le liányī.
The news caused ripples in everyone's hearts.

Tips

usage
Means a small ripple. It is mostly literary and appears chiefly in 涟漪 ('ripples'), often used figuratively for a small stir in one's feelings.

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water (radical form)
The three-drop water radical, the left-side form of 水. A ripple is a water surface, the same family as 波 (wave) and 涟.
semantic
犭 quǎn
dog (radical form)
The side form of 犬. It belongs to the right element and carries no meaning here, just helping spell the phonetic body.
phonetic
奇 qí
strange
Strange, the core of the right element and the phonetic root. The reading thins to yī. The same sound element ties this character to 椅.

Stroke Order

漪 yī