Memory phrase for the character: 仪

仪

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Meaning

apparatus, ceremony, rites, appearance, present

Pronunciation

yí

Explanation

 Left: person 亻, right: justice 义 (It comes from the emphasized 丶 head of the person 人 with raised arms 乂)

Mnemonic
 
The person of justice needs an apparatus for bringing ceremonies in appearance.

Radicals

亻 personThis radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart. - This radical has several variation, i.e. a lying person , a sitting 匕 person.
义 justiceSimplified from 義 and now seen as a person with raised arms 乂 and an emphasized head 丶, that has much justice in it.




 Vocabulary

仪表 yí biǎo  appearance; bearing; meter (i.e. measuring instrument)
仪式 yí shì  ceremony
仪器 yí qì  instrument; apparatus
唐绍仪 Táng Shào yí  Tang Shaoyi (1862-1939), politician and diplomat
溥仪 Pǔ yí  Pu Yi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci's biopic The Last Emperor
殡仪馆 bìn yí guǎn  the undertaker's; funeral parlor
殡仪馆 bìn yí guǎn  

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