易 (yì): easy, amiable, to change
易 (yì) is a Chinese character meaning “easy.” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 日 (structural) and 勿 (structural). It ranks #461 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- easy
- amiable
- to change
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 易
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 容易adjective | róng yì | easy | 3 |
| 交易verb/noun | jiāo yì | to deal | 5 |
| 轻易adjective/adverb | qīng yì | easy | 5 |
| 贸易noun | mào yì | (commercial) trade | 6 |
| 易于verb | yì yú | very likely | 6 |
| 好容易adjective | hǎo róng yì | (idiomatic usage) with great difficulty | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 路易斯proper-noun | lù yì sī | (name) Louis |
| 路易proper-noun | lù yì | (name) Louis |
| 显而易见phrase | xiǎn ér yì jiàn | clearly and easy to see (idiom) |
| 好不容易adjective | hǎo bù róng yì | with great difficulty |
| 轻而易举phrase | qīng ér yì jǔ | easy |
| 圣路易斯 | shèng lù yì sī | St Louis, large city in eastern Missouri |
| 易如反掌phrase | yì rú fǎn zhǎng | easy as a hand's turn (idiom) |
| 简易adjective | jiǎn yì | simple and easy |
| 不易verb | bù yì | not easy to do sth |
| 交易所noun | jiāo yì suǒ | exchange |
| 易碎adjective | yì suì | brittle |
| 易拉罐noun | yì lā guàn | pull-top can |
| 平易近人 | píng yì jìn rén | amiable and approachable (idiom) |
| 来之不易phrase | lái zhī bù yì | (idiom) hard to come by |
| 交易会 | jiāo yì huì | trade fair |
易 appears in 100 compound words: 46 as the first character, 29 as the last, and 25 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 易 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (28)
to change color and alter one's expression (idiom); to go white with fear; out of one's wits
Showing 12 of 28 idioms containing 易.
Example Sentences
学中文不容易，但只要坚持，就一定能学好。
Xué Zhōngwén bù róngyì, dàn zhǐyào jiānchí, jiù yīdìng néng xué hǎo.
Learning Chinese is not easy, but as long as you persist, you will definitely learn it well.
大戰略,大交易,川普訪華
dà 戰 lüè , dà jiāo yì , chuān pǔ 訪 華
Grand Strategy, Grand Deal: Trump's Visit to China
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Trump's Tariff Policy Takes Sudden Turn; Chiang Chi-chen Reveals: Trade Is the Real Goal! Taiwan Must Boost Competitiveness
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The Livermore China ADR Leader Index closed up 0.94%, with NetEase Youdao rising nearly...
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zhōu jì jiāo yì suǒ lún dūn kě kě qī huò xià diē jìn , zhì měi dūn . . .
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德语学起来容易吗？
Déyǔ xué qǐlai róngyì ma?
Is German easy to learn?
戒烟容易，戒你太难！
Jièyān róngyì, jiè nǐ tài nán!
Quitting smoking is easy, quitting you is too hard.
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