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毅

yì

HSK 6 Character

What 毅 means

1. firm and resolute
2. staunch

Example sentences

• 学好一门外语需要坚韧不拔的毅力。
  Xuéhǎo yī mén wàiyǔ xūyào jiānrènbùbá de yìlì.
  Mastering a foreign language involves a lot of patience.
• 就像你们知道的那样，毅力是成功的关键。
  Jiù xiàng nǐmen zhīdào de nàyàng, yìlì shì chénggōng de guānjiàn.
  Perseverance, as you know, is the key to success.
• 信心、毅力、勇气三者具备，则天下没有做不成的事。
  Xìnxīn, yìlì, yǒngqì sān zhě jùbèi, zé tiānxià méiyǒu zuò bù chéng de shì.
  If confidence, determination and courage are together in one place, there is nothing that cannot be done.

Words starting with 毅

• 毅力yì lìperseverance; willpower
• 毅然yì ránfirmly; resolutely; without hesitation
• 毅然决然yì rán jué ránwithout hesitation; resolutely; firmly

Words containing 毅

• 陈毅Chén YìChen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of…
• 坚毅jiān yìfirm and persistent; unswerving determination
• 刚毅gāng yìresolute; steadfast; stalwart
• 荣毅仁Róng Yì rénRong Yiren (1916-2005), PRC Vice President from 1993-1998, played an important role in…
• 范志毅Fàn Zhì yìFan Zhiyi (1969-), soccer player
• 刘毅Liú YìLiu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin…
• 方毅Fāng YìFang Yi (1916-1997), senior party apparatchik
• 王毅Wáng YìWang Yi (1953-), PRC foreign minister (2013-) and state councilor (2018-)
• 有毅力yǒu yì lìpersevering; unwavering
• 柳毅传Liǔ Yì zhuànstory of Liu Yi, Tang fantasy fiction by Li Chaowei 李朝威, popular with dramatist of…
• 刚毅木讷gāng yì mù nèresolute and taciturn (idiom)

Characters that look like 毅

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

• 歉qiànto apologize; to regret; deficient
• 颜yáncolor; face; countenance
• 蔽bìto cover; to shield; to screen
• 觐jìn(history) to have an audience with the Emperor
• 觑qùto spy; watch for
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)

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