Chinese symbol for “passing”
易逝
yì shì
passing; transient; fugitive
The closest CC-CEDICT match for passing is 易逝 (yì shì), defined as: passing; transient; fugitive.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “passing”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沉沦 (沉淪) | chén lún | to sink into (vice, depravity etc); to pass into oblivion |
| 苒 | rǎn | luxuriant growth; passing (of time) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 易逝.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 容易 | róng yì | easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to |
| 交易 | jiāo yì | to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal |
| 贸易 (貿易) | mào yì | (commercial) trade; 个 (gè) |
| 轻易 (輕易) | qīng yì | easy; simple; rashly; offhandedly |
| 不易 | bù yì | not easy to do sth; difficult |
| 交易所 | jiāo yì suǒ | exchange; stock exchange |
| 逝世 | shì shì | to pass away; to die |
| 逝去 | shì qù | to elapse; to pass away |
See also: Japanese symbol for “passing”.
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.