医 · yī
cure, heal; doctor, medical
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
cure, heal; doctor, medical
- Mandarin
- yī
- Cantonese
- ji1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 医 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 예
- Personal-name Hanja (N)
- 의
- Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+533B
- Radical
- 匸 · 23
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 医
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
醫
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- 'ejH · 於計 反切 · #2372
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 13645 · 'ejH = 蟹開四去齊影
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yī
- kCantonese
- ji1
- kDefinition
- cure, heal; doctor, medical
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 23.5
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+533B U+91AB
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+533B
- kTGH
- 2013:700
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yì,yī 10085.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yī 1359.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yī 430.180
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yī(460)