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(yì) - discuss, opinion in Mandarin

Traditional: 议

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Translation

discuss, opinion

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound: the speech radical 讠 signals discussion, while 义 (yì) supplies the sound, giving the sense to discuss or an opinion.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
讠 (speech radical) + 义 (yì, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 议

Examples

Your suggestion is very good.

Let us have a meeting.

I agree with your opinion.

Everyone discusses this topic at the meeting.

We hold a meeting together to discuss this proposal.

议 (yì) means discuss or opinion, and shows up in 建议 (jiàn yì), suggestion.

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 议.

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This word is part of lesson 108.