(yī) - medicine, to heal (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yīTraditional: 医
Translation
medicine, to heal (bound morpheme)
Word origin
The simplified form has the right-opening box 匚 enclosing 矢 (arrow), originally depicting instruments stored in a case, by extension medical instruments, hence medicine or to heal.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 匚 (container) + 矢 (arrow)
Stroke order
医
Examples
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My elder brother is a doctor.
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I need to go to the hospital.
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Chinese and Western medicine each have their strengths.
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He is studying medicine at university.
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Chinese medicine and Western medicine each have their strengths.
医 (yī) covers the medical field as a bound morpheme. It anchors 医生 (doctor), 医院 (hospital), and 中医 (Chinese medicine), where it sits as the topic of the compound.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 医.
Used in
Grammar articles
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