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扆

yǐ

Character

What 扆 means

1. screen

Other readings

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

• Yǐsurname Yi

Characters built on 衣

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

• 依yīto depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to
• 袭xí(bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate…
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 铱yīiridium (chemistry)
• 襞bìcreases; folds or pleats in a garment

Sounds the same

Read yǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 以to use; by means of; according to
• 已already; to stop; then
• 椅chair
• 乙second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; second in order…
• 蚁ant
• 矣classical final particle, similar to modern 了
• 倚to lean on; to rely upon
• 尾horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
• 苡used in 芣苡; see 薏苡
• 旖used in 旖旎
• 螘ant; variant of 蚁
• 钇yttrium (chemistry)