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驿

yì

Character Traditional 驛

What 驿 means

1. post horse
2. relay station

Words starting with 驿

• 驿站yì zhànrelay station for post horses (old)
• 驿传yì chuánrelay post-horse mail service (in former times)
• 驿马yì mǎpost horse
• 驿城区Yì chéng QūYicheng, a district of Zhumadian City 驻马店市
• 驿城Yì chéngsee 驿城区

Words containing 驿

• 电驿diàn yìrelay (electronics)
• 龙泉驿区Lóng quán yì QūLongquanyi, a district of Chengdu City 成都市
• 龙泉驿Lóng quán yìsee 龙泉驿区

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 驿

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

• 择zéto select; to choose; to pick over
• 删shānto delete
• 骆luòcamel; white horse with a black mane (archaic)
• 胚pēiembryo
• 狒fèihamadryad baboon
• 驸fùprince consort

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