verb #15,743

Meanings

  1. 1 to leave behind
  2. 2 to lose
  3. 3 legacy

Examples

HSK 4
Yéye gěi tā liúxià le yī dà bǐ yíchǎn.
Her grandfather left her a large inheritance.
HSK 5
Yǒuxiē tóngnián de jìyì yǒngyuǎn búhuì bèi yíwàng.
Some childhood memories will never be forgotten.
HSK 6
Tā duì méi gēn yéye gàobié gǎndào shēnshēn de yíhàn.
He felt deep regret for not saying goodbye to his grandfather.

Tips

memory
(walk) + (precious) - something precious left behind

Components

radical
chuò
walk; motion (radical form of 辵)
Motion radical sweeping along the bottom-left - modern form of . Indexes in the travel family with advance, edge, to go through. The base sense of is 'to leave behind on the road' - something dropped or forgotten while moving - so carries the core image of the action.
phonetic
guì
expensive; precious
Inside supplies the sound - guì shifted to yí through irregular Old-Chinese palatalization. 's 'precious thing' imagery ( cowrie under ) also adds quiet flavour: what leaves behind is often a precious legacy - 遗产 inheritance, 遗物 relic, 遗嘱 last will.

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