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Kanji Detail for 易 - "change, easy, exchange"

  • Meaning

    易 means "change, easy, exchange."

    1. Change - To alter; to transform.

    2. Easy - Simple to do; not difficult.

    3. Divination - Fortune-telling; the I Ching.

    4. Exchange - To swap; to trade.

    5. Underestimate - To look down upon; to slight.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    easy; ready to; simple; fortune-telling; divination

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    change; easy

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Yi; abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], the Book of Changes

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to change; to exchange, to trade; simple, easy

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To exchange. Exchanging goods is called 貿易 (trade). | To change. Such as 以暴易暴 (to replace violence with violence). | A classic name. An ancient book of divination. There were Lianshan, Guicang, and Zhouyi, called the Three Yi. Now only Zhouyi remains, which is the Book of Changes. | 辟易 means to retreat. Such as 辟易數里 (retreating several li). From "Records of the Grand Historian." | Not difficult. From "Mencius": "The matter is easy yet one seeks the difficult." | Peaceful, approachable. Such as 平易近民 (approachable to the people). | To cultivate. From "Mencius": 易其田疇 (to cultivate his fields).
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