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弈

yì

Character

What 弈 means

1. ancient name for go (Chinese board game)

Example sentences

• 在大博弈期间，阿富汗是一个缓冲国。
  Zài dà bóyì qījiān, āfùhàn shì yī gè huǎnchōng guó.
  During the Great Game, Afghanistan was a buffer state.
• 问题不是政治不纯洁，而是整个政治博弈已经腐朽。
  The trouble is not with impure politics, but that the whole game of politics is rotten.

Words containing 弈

• 博弈bó yìgames (such as chess, dice etc); gambling; contest
• 对弈duì yìto play go, chess etc
• 博弈论bó yì lùngame theory
• 零和博弈líng hé bó yìzero-sum game (economics)

Characters built on 亦

These share the phonetic component 亦 (yì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 迹jì(bound form) trace; mark; vestige; clue; Taiwan pr. jī
• 奕yìabundant; graceful

Characters that look like 弈

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

• 莉lìused in 茉莉; used in the transliteration of female names
• 券quànbond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half); contract…
• 癸guǐtenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; tenth in order…
• 莽mǎng(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish…
• 荞qiáocommon mallow (Malva sinensis); variant of 荞
• 羿Yìsurname Yi; name of a legendary archer (also called 后羿

Sounds the same

Read yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 意(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 议to comment on; to discuss; to suggest
• 易easy; amiable; to change
• 亿100 million
• 亦also
• 艺skill; art
• 译to translate; to interpret
• 忆to recollect; to remember; memory
• 谊friendship; also pr. yí
• 义justice; righteousness; meaning
• 益benefit; profit; advantage
• 裔(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands