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挹

yì

Character

What 挹 means

1. literaryto scoop up; to ladle out
2. literaryto draw toward oneself

Words starting with 挹

• 挹取yì qǔto ladle out; to scoop up
• 挹掬yì jūto scoop up water with the hands
• 挹注yì zhùto shift resources into areas of need; to inject funds; to balance resources
• 挹酌yì zhuóto pour out wine

Words containing 挹

• 钦挹qīn yìto admire and respect; to look up to
• 冲挹chōng yìto defer to; to be submissive
• 奖挹jiǎng yìto reward and promote
• 㧑挹huī yìto be extremely modest and polite

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