Character Details
| chair | Ascii: 36947 | w349 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 椅 | yǐ | ee | 3 | 木 (tree) + 奇 (strange) → chair | 椅 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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To the Chinese, the first time they saw a chair, it looked like a strange use of wood! Probably why they still liked to sit on the floor... | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Do you want a chair? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 29 - 曰 | yuē | tree | say | open‑mouth sun | 曰 曹 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 木 (tree) + 奇 (strange) → chair | 木 (semantic) | 奇 (phonetic) | phonetic from 奇 | ||||||||