易
Meanings
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- 1.surname Yi
- 2.I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易经[Yì jīng])
- 1.easy
- 2.amiable
- 3.to change
- 4.to exchange
- 5.prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
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Wiktionary
- 1.Original form of 賜／赐 (cì, “to give; to bestow”).
- 2.to exchange; to interchange
- 3.to change; to alter; to modify
- 4.a surname
- 5.easy; simple; not difficult
- 6.gentle; kind
- 7.effortless; prone to
- 8.easily; effortlessly
- 9.easy; not difficult
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Etymology
Oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions: a pictogram (象形) of a filled container, the original form of 賜 (OC *sleːɡs, “to confer, to bestow”). Possibly specialised from 益 (OC *qleɡ, “to increase, to add”). Perhaps borrowed phonetically to mean "easy". The character is not the pictogram of a chameleon, as folk etymology says. Unrelated to 陽 since it doesn't represent the sun. From 移 (OC *lal, “to change; to alter”) + k-extension (Schuessler, 2007). The meaning of "change, alter" is linked to "give, bestow" since something given by somebody to somebody else "changes" its owner.
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Components
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Example sentences
她易患感冒。
She was susceptible to colds.
我不輕易放棄。
I'm no quitter.
英語簡單易學。
English is easy to learn.
我不是輕易嚇得住的。
I'm not that easily intimidated.
戰爭結束之後貿易障礙被解除。
Trade barriers were lifted after the war ended.
湯姆想要箇小得易於攜帶的電腦。
Tom wants a computer small enough to easily carry.
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