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益
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- 益
- yì · profit, benefit; advantage; hexagram ䷩
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Mandarin tones
4 · yi4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
jik1
Cantonese word readings for 益. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- (obsolete) original form of 溢 (yì, “to overflow”)
- (literary) affluent; well-off
- to increase; to add; to cause gain
- profit; benefit; gain
- (literary) more; further; even more
- 42nd hexagram of the I Ching
- (Cantonese) to benefit; to advantage
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