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

易

  • Meaning

    易 means "change, easy, divination."

    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.

  • Words using 易

    • 貿易 ぼうえき Listen (foreign) trade; (international) commerce; importing and exporting
    • 容易 ようい Listen easy; simple; plain
    • 安易 あんい Listen easy; simple; easygoing
    • 簡易 かんい Listen simple; simplified; easy
    • 交易 こうえき Listen trade; commerce
    • 簡易保険 かんいほけん Listen postal life insurance
    • 難易 なんい Listen (relative) difficulty
    • 易しい やさしい Listen easy; plain; simple

  • Four-character idioms with 易

    • 万世不易 ばんせいふえき Listen eternity; perpetuity
    • 万代不易 ばんだいふえき Listen eternity; perpetuity
    • 万古不易 ばんこふえき Listen eternally unchanging
    • 不易流行 ふえきりゅうこう Listen the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; haiku is both fluid and transitory, and eternal and immutable; an interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku
    • 千古不易 せんこふえき Listen eternally unchanging
    • 易姓革命 えきせいかくめい Listen revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)

  • Tattoo check: 易

    • Verified meaning: change, easy, divination
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read い, えき, おさむ, やすし)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 易

    Given names 易(おさむ)Listen 易(やすし)Listen

    Surnames 易(い)Listen 易(えき)Listen

  • 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).

  • Onyomi

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    eki(エキ) エキ

    i(イ) イ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    yasa.shii(やさ-しい) やさ-しい

    yasu.i(やす-い) やす-い

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    change easy divination exchange contempt scorn level smooth underestimate simple adapt alter convert flexible fortune modify replace swap switch trade transform

Sentences including 易

  • Easier said than done.

  • Try to write in plain english.

  • Easier said than done.

  • The problem is far from easy.

  • It is not easy to be understood by everybody.

  • This book is easy for you to read.

  • We stand against free trade.

  • Can you make out the meaning easily?

  • The question is not so easy that anyone can answer it.

  • What an easy problem it is !

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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