异 — Chinese character
异
yì
different, strange, unusual; foreign; surprising
- Pinyin
- yì
- Radical
- 55 ⼶ (Two Hands)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 巳 廾
- Formation
- ideographic — Simplified form of 異; a person 共 with a scary face田
- Traditional
- 異
Common words with 异
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 差异 (差異) | chā yì | difference; discrepancy |
| 异常 (異常) | yì cháng | unusual; abnormal; extremely; exceptionally |
| 异议 (異議) | yì yì | objection; dissent |
| 怪异 (怪異) | guài yì | monstrous; strange |
| 诡异 (詭異) | guǐ yì | strange; weird |
| 优异 (優異) | yōu yì | exceptional; outstandingly good |
| 异性 (異性) | yì xìng | the opposite sex; of the opposite sex |
| 变异 (變異) | biàn yì | variation |
| 奇异 (奇異) | qí yì | fantastic; bizarre |
| 无异 (無異) | wú yì | nothing other than; to differ in no way from |
| 异地 (異地) | yì dì | different place; abroad |
| 各异 (各異) | gè yì | all different; each unto his own |
English words written with 异
- fantastic
- comparison
- surprising
- variation
- exceptional
- exotic
- objection
- novelty
- dissent
- pagan
- differentiation
- monstrous
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.