Chinese symbol for “anecdote”
逸事
yì shì
anecdote; lost or apocryphal story about famous person
The closest CC-CEDICT match for anecdote is 逸事 (yì shì), defined as: anecdote; lost or apocryphal story about famous person.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “anecdote”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 轶闻 (軼聞) | yì wén | anecdote; apocryphal story |
| 掌故 | zhǎng gù | anecdote; tales (esp. about a historical figure) |
| 轶事遗闻 (軼事遺聞) | yì shì yí wén | anecdote (about historical person); lost or apocryphal story |
| 逸话 (逸話) | yì huà | rumor; anecdote (not in the official record) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 逸事.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 逃逸 | táo yì | to escape; to run away |
| 安逸 | ān yì | easy and comfortable; easy |
| 一劳永逸 (一勞永逸) | yī láo yǒng yì | to get sth done once and for all |
| 飘逸 (飄逸) | piāo yì | graceful; elegant |
| 隐逸 (隱逸) | yǐn yì | to live in seclusion; reclusive |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
| 故事 | gù shì | old practice |
See also: Japanese symbol for “anecdote”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.