义
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
yì yi4
- justice
- righteousness
- meaning
- foster (father etc)
- adopted
- artificial (tooth, limb etc)
- relationship
- friendship
- surname Yi
- (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 义大利 Yì dà lì)
Example sentences
- Life without love is just totally pointless.
- What's the sense of working so hard?
HSK words with 义
- 意义 yìyì sense
- 义务 yìwù duty
- 含义 hányì meaning (implicit in a phrase)
- 正义 zhèngyì justice
- 名义 míngyì name
- 主义 zhǔyì -ism
- 定义 dìngyì definition
- 社会主义 shèhuìzhǔyì socialism
- 资本主义 zīběnzhǔyì capitalism
- 起义 qǐyì uprising
- 帝国主义 dìguózhǔyì imperialism
- 官僚主义 guānliáozhǔyì bureaucracy
- 见义勇为 jiànyìyǒngwéi to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth
- 涵义 hányì content
- 广义 guǎngyì broad sense
- 天经地义 tiānjīngdìyì lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper
- 义工 yìgōng volunteer worker
- 贬义 biǎnyì derogatory sense
- 侠义 xiáyì chivalrous
- 无情无义 wúqíngwúyì completely lacking any feeling or sense of justice (idiom); cold and ruthless