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铱

yī

Character Traditional 銥

What 铱 means

1. iridium (chemistry)

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
• 襞bìcreases; folds or pleats in a garment
• 扆yǐscreen

Characters that look like 铱

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

• 做zuòto make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)
• 锅guōpot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing
• 铀yóuuranium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. yòu
• 铢zhūtwenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
• 馀Yúsurname Yu
• 钵bōsmall earthenware plate or basin; a monk's alms bowl; Sanskrit paatra

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