漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
依: reliant, depend on
Also: consequently, therefore, due to
JLPT N28 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 衣 gives the sound
8 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
イi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 依頼心いらいしんspirit of dependence
- 依頼するいらいするrequest [v.t.]
- 依存するいぞんするdepend on, rely on
- 依拠するいきょするbased on
- 依然としていぜんとしてstill, as yet, as of old
エe · on'yomi
- 帰依するきえするdevote oneself to (religion)
Also read よる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
依 takes the 衣 family's reading, イ (i).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side依 reliant · 亻
vs哀 pathetic · 口In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yī
Same form: 依 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 依 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 依 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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