意义
yì yì 4–4
sense; meaning; significance; importance
- Characters
- 2
- 意 · 义
- Syllables
- 2
- yì yì
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 807
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 意yì13 strokesHSK 2thought, idea, opinion; think
- 义yì3 strokesHSK 3 traditional 義right conduct, righteousness
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
你说的没有意义。
Nǐ shuō de méi yǒu yì yì
What you are saying does not make sense.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 意义. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 注意zhù yìHSK 3
to take note of; to pay attention to
- 愿意yuàn yìHSK 2
to wish; to want; ready; willing (to do sth)
- 同意tóng yìHSK 3
to agree; to consent; to approve
- 意思yì siHSK 2
idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc
- 意见yì jiànHSK 2
idea; opinion; suggestion; objection; complaint
- 意识yì shíHSK 5
consciousness; awareness; to be aware; to realize
- 意味着yì wèi zheHSK 5
to signify; to mean; to imply
- 意外yì wàiHSK 3
unexpected; accident; mishap
- 满意mǎn yìHSK 2
satisfied; pleased; to one's satisfaction
- 生意shēng yìHSK 3
life force; vitality
- 故意gù yìHSK 2
deliberately; on purpose
- 主义zhǔ yìHSK 7
-ism; ideology
- 不好意思bù hǎo yì siHSK 2
to feel embarrassed; to find it embarrassing; to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb)
- 有意思yǒu yì siHSK 2
interesting; meaningful; enjoyable; fun
- 创意chuàng yìHSK 6
creative; creativity
- 义务yì wùHSK 4
duty; obligation; volunteer (work etc)
- 主意zhǔ yiHSK 3
plan; idea; decision; Beijing pr. [zhú yi]
- 随意suí yìHSK 5
as one wishes; according to one's wishes; at will; voluntary; conscious
- 正义zhèng yìHSK 5
justice; righteousness; just; righteous
- 在意zài yìHSK 7
to care about; to mind
- 名义míng yìHSK 6
name; titular; nominal; in name; ostensible purpose
- 有意yǒu yìHSK 7
to intend; intentionally; interested in
- 意志yì zhìHSK 5
will; willpower; determination
- 定义dìng yìHSK 7
definition; to define