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翼
Mandarin · pinyin yì#
Meanings · yì
- wing
- area surrounding the bullseye of a target
- to assist
- one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy
- old variant of 翌
Mandarin · pinyin Yì#
Meanings · Yì
- surname Yi
- alternative name for 絳 Jiàng, the capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–475 BC)
Characters in this entry
- 翼
- yì · wings; fins on fish; shelter; 27th lunar mansion, determinative star α Crateris (Alkes)
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Mandarin tones
4 · yi4
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Cantonese word readings for 翼. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (literary or dialectal) wing (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 對／对 c)
- wing (of an airplane)
- (figurative) wing; flank
- (Chinese astronomy) the Wings mansion, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions
- (literary, or in compounds) to assist
- a surname, Yi
character · Etymology 2
- (Teochew) moth (insect of the order Lepidoptera)
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