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漪

yī

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What 漪 means

1. ripple

Example sentences

• 微风在湖面上掀起了一丝丝涟漪。
  Wēifēng zài hú miàn shàng xiānqǐ le yī sī sī liányī.
  A gentle wind made ripples on the surface of the pond.

Words containing 漪

• 涟漪lián yīripple
• 载漪Zài yīZai Yi (1856-1922), Manchu imperial prince and politician, disgraced after supporting the…
• 涟漪微漾lián yī wēi yàngripples; riffles

Characters that look like 漪

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

• 精jīngessence; extract; vitality
• 跨kuàto step across; to stride over; to straddle
• 膀bǎngupper arm; wing
• 阙quēused in place of 缺 (old); mistake
• 璜huángsemicircular jade ornament
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)

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)
• 揖to greet by raising clasped hands
• 噫yeah (interjection of approval); to belch
• 咿(onomatopoeia) to squeak
• 铱iridium (chemistry)
• 瑿a black stone like jade; jet
• 祎excellent; precious; rare