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绎

yì

HSK 6 Character Traditional 繹

What 绎 means

1. continuous
2. to interpret
3. to unravel
4. to draw silk (old)

Words containing 绎

• 演绎yǎn yì(of a story etc) to unfold; to play out; to develop (a technique etc); to enact
• 络绎不绝luò yì bù jué(idiom) continuously; in an endless stream
• 络绎luò yìcontinuous; unending
• 演绎法yǎn yì fǎdeductive reasoning

Characters built on 扌

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

• 提títo carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward
• 持chíto hold; to grasp; to support
• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 技jìskill
• 执zhíto execute (a plan); to grasp
• 拟nǐdoubtful; suspicious; variant of 拟
• 批pīto ascertain; to act on; to criticize
• 释shìto explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼

Characters that look like 绎

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

• 给gěito; for; for the benefit of
• 择zéto select; to choose; to pick over
• 络luònet-like object; to hold sth in place with a net; to wind
• 降jiàngto drop; to fall; to come down
• 畅chàngfree; unimpeded; smooth
• 绔kùvariant of 裤

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