(yì) - easy, simple (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yìTraditional: 易
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Translation
easy, simple (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A pictographic character whose oracle-bone form depicts a lizard or chameleon; it was borrowed for the abstract sense of change and, from the ease of changing, the meaning easy or simple.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- pictograph of a lizard, borrowed for the sense easy
Stroke order
易
Examples
。
This question is not easy.
，。
Easier said than done.
。
This question is easy to answer.
。
This problem is not easy to solve.
。
Doing this is not at all easy.
易 (yì) means easy or simple. It is a bound morpheme and most often appears in 容易 (róng yì), easy.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 易.
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