谊 (yì): friendship
谊 (yì) is a Chinese character meaning “friendship.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 讠 (structural) and 宜 (structural). It ranks #2095 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 谊 fitting 宜 speech 讠; 宜 also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 讠 (speech) appears in many related characters such as 认 (rèn, to recognize, to admit), 记 (jì, to remember, to record), 识 (shí, to know, knowledge).
Definitions
- friendship
Etymology & Origin
ideographicFitting 宜 speech 讠; 宜 also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿰讠宜 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 谊
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 联谊会noun | lián yì huì | association |
| 情谊noun | qíng yì | friendship |
| 交谊舞noun | jiāo yì wǔ | social dance |
| 联谊verb | lián yì | friendship |
| 友谊赛noun | yǒu yì sài | friendly match |
| 交谊noun | jiāo yì | association |
| 深情厚谊phrase | shēn qíng hòu yì | deep friendship |
| 尽地主之谊 | jìn dì zhǔ zhī yì | to act as host |
| 友谊地久天长 | yǒu yì dì jiǔ tiān cháng | Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 羅伯特·伯恩斯|罗伯特·伯恩斯, sung to mark t... |
| 友谊天长地久 | yǒu yì tiān cháng dì jiǔ | see 友誼地久天長|友谊地久天长 |
| 超友谊关系 | chāo yǒu yì guān xi | relationship that is more than friendship |
| 友谊万岁 | yǒu yì wàn suì | see 友誼地久天長|友谊地久天长 |
| 友谊商店noun | yǒu yì shāng diàn | Friendship Store, PRC state-run store originally intended for foreigners, diplomats etc, specializing in selling impo... |
| 年谊 | nián yì | camaraderie between persons who have gone through some experience in the same year |
| 隆情厚谊 | lóng qíng hòu yì | profound love, generous friendship (idiom) |
谊 appears in 22 compound words: 0 as the first character, 55 as the last, and 45 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 谊 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
谊语是交流思想的重要工具。
yì yǔ shì jiāo liú sī xiǎng de chóng yāo gōng jù .
Words are an important tool for exchanging ideas.
汶莱苏丹致贺孟加拉独立日 祝愿两国情谊持续发展
汶 莱 sū dān zhì hè mèng jiā lā dú lì rì zhù yuàn liǎng guó qíng yì chí xù fā zhǎn
The Sultan of Brunei Congratulates Bangladesh on Independence Day and Expresses Hopes for the Continued Development of Bilateral Friendship
友谊真翻车!屏东轿车自撞坠桥留1女 4同伴没...
yǒu yì zhēn fān chē ! bǐng dōng jiào chē zì zhuàng zhuì qiáo liú 1 nǚ 4 tóng bàn méi . . .
What a disaster! Car crashes into bridge in Pingtung, killing one woman; four others...
...见谈台海!吁美国不要挑衅中国、台湾值得友谊与支持
. . . jiàn tán tái hǎi ! xū měi guó bù yāo tiāo xìn zhōng guó , tái wān zhí dé yǒu yì yǔ zhī chí
...Discussing the Taiwan Strait! A Call for the U.S. Not to Provoke China; Taiwan Deserves Friendship and Support
无锡樱花友谊林植树活动 日破天荒未获邀
wú xī 樱 huā yǒu yì lín zhí shù huó dòng rì pò tiān huāng wèi huò yāo
Wuxi Cherry Blossom Friendship Grove Tree-Planting Event: For the First Time Ever, I Was Not Invited
“友谊”管道中断背后的博弈:能源战与欧盟扩员之...
yǒu yì guǎn dào zhōng duàn bèi hòu de bó yì : néng yuán zhàn yǔ ōu méng kuò yuán zhī . . .
The game behind the interruption of the "friendship" pipeline: the energy war and the expansion of the European Union...
算帐愈是精确, 友谊愈是坚定。
Suàn zhàng yù shì jīngquè, yǒuyì yù shì jiāndìng.
The more precise the calculations, the stronger the friendship.
真正的友谊比金钱更有价值。
Zhēnzhèng de yǒuyì bǐ jīnqián gèng yǒujiàzhí.
Real friendship is more valuable than money.
他和她之间的友谊，渐渐地酝酿成了爱情。
Tā hé tā zhījiān de yǒuyì, jiànjiàn de yùnniàng chéngle àiqíng.
By degrees the friendship between him and her grew into love.
你的友谊对我来说意义重大。
Nǐ de yǒuyì duìwǒláishuō yìyì zhòngdà.
Your friendship means a lot to me.
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