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咿

yī

Character

What 咿 means

1. onomatopoeiato squeak

Other readings

咿 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yīvariant of {咿|yī}

Words starting with 咿

• 咿呀学语yī yā xué yǔ(of a baby) to babble

Characters that look like 咿

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 柳liǔwillow
• 钞chāomoney; paper money; variant of 抄
• 钾jiǎpotassium (chemistry)
• 铆mǎoto fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet…
• 馀Yúsurname Yu
• 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously

Sounds the same

Read yī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 一one; single; a (article)
• 医medical; medicine; doctor
• 衣clothes; Kangxi radical 145
• 依to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to
• 伊(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she")…
• 壹one (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 漪ripple
• 揖to greet by raising clasped hands
• 噫yeah (interjection of approval); to belch
• 铱iridium (chemistry)
• 瑿a black stone like jade; jet
• 祎excellent; precious; rare