HSK 6 · Nature

翼 yì “wing” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 翼 means

  1. wing
  2. area surrounding the bullseye of a target
  3. to assist
  4. one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy

How to say 翼

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale翼yì4th tone, falling

翼 in a sentence

  1. 飞机失去了一部分机翼。

    Fēijī shīqù le yí bùfen jīyì.

    The plane lost part of a wing.

    Sentence #9969247 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她乘着光之翼飞走了。

    Tā chéng zhe guāng zhī yì fēi zǒu le.

    She flew away on wings of light.

    Sentence #8744866 from Tatoeba

  3. 翼 also appears in 小心翼翼 “very carefully”

    她小心翼翼地走。

    Tā xiǎoxīnyìyì de zǒu.

    She walked very carefully.

    Sentence #1395107 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 翼 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 翼 (yì) with each of its parts in a different colour
翼yìwing
  • 羽feather · yǔMeaning part
  • 異differentSound part

羽 hints at the meaning (feather); 異 () hints at the sound. Compare it with yì.

How to write 翼

翼 17 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

翼 (yì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 翼 (yì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 翼

Words with 翼

小心翼翼xiǎoxīnyìyì · very carefully

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FAQs

翼 (yì) means “wing” or “area surrounding the bullseye of a target”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yì: yì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 翼 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 翼 from the suggestions. Typing yi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
翼 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.