Character Details
| use/apply with (to) | Ascii: 21152 | w99 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 以 | yǐ | ee | 3 | 人 (person) + 丿 (slash) → to use; by means of | 以 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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A person earns his living by means of the plow. I imagine a sweating man dragging a bronze-age ard behind him as he plows his field himself, too poor to afford an ox. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - use, take, according to, because of, in order to | |||||||||||
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| - I'm proud of you | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 9 - 丨 | gǔn | line/stick | vertical line | single vertical stroke | 中 申 丨 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 人 (person) + 丿 (slash) → to use; by means of | 人 (semantic origin) | 丶 (phonetic) | irregular phonetic | ||||||||