义 (義) yì

1. yì noun meaning; sense
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 意思 (ABC 'yì' bf 3; CED 2 '义'; Guoyu '義' n 5; Kroll 2015 '義' 2, p. 550; NCCED 2 '义' 1)
2. yì noun justice; right action; righteousness
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In particular, as a virtue in Confucianism (ABC 'yì' bf 1; CED 1 '义' 1; Guoyu '義' n 2; Kroll 2015 '義' 1, p. 550; NCCED 1 '义' 1; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1259; Yao 2000, p. 17)
3. yì adjective artificial; man-made; fake
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yì' bf 6; CED 1 '义' 5; Guoyu '義' adj 3; NCCED 1 '义' 5)
4. yì noun chivalry; generosity
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 功用 (ABC 'yì' 2; Guoyu '義' n 6; Kroll 2015 '義' 3a, p. 550; NCCED 1 '义' 2)
5. yì adjective just; righteous
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CED 1 '义' 2; Guoyu '義' adj 1; NCCED 1 '义' 3)
6. yì adjective adopted
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yì' bf 5; CED 1 '义' 4; Kroll 2015 '義' 3, p. 550; NCCED 1 '义' 4)
7. yì noun a relationship
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yì' bf 4; CED 1 '义' 3; NCCED 2 '义' 1)
8. yì noun volunteer
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 义务 (ABC 'yì' bf 7)
9. yì noun something suitable
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 合宜的事情 (Guoyu '義' n 1)
10. yì noun a martyr
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 死节 (Guoyu '義' n 3)
11. yì noun a law
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 法则 (Guoyu '義' n 4)
12. yì proper noun Yi
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '義' n 7)

Contained in

• 宗派主义(宗派主義) sectarianism
• 背信弃义(背信棄義) breaking faith and abandoning right; to betray; treachery; perfidy
• 义愤填胸(義憤填胸) righteous indignation fills one's breast; to feel indignant at injustice
• 苏非主义(蘇非主義) Sufism (Islamic mystic tradition)
• 辩证唯物主义(辯證唯物主義) dialectical materialism
• 自然主义(自然主義) naturalism ; naturalism
• 民主主义(民主主義) democracy
• 无义(無義) without meaning; nonsense; immoral; faithless
• 晓以大义(曉以大義) to reason with; to lecture
• 共产主义(共產主義) communism
• 绥靖主义(綏靖主義) appeasement
• 环境行动主义(環境行動主義) environmentalism; environmental activism
• 有意义(有意義) to make sense; to have meaning; to have significance; meaningful; significant; worthwhile; important; interesting
• 重利轻义(重利輕義) to value material gain over righteousness
• 霸权主义(霸權主義) hegemonism
• 引喻失义(引喻失義) to draw on an inappropriate analogy
• 科学主义(科學主義) scientism
• 原义(原義) original meaning
• 神秘主义(神秘主義) mysticism
• 天经地义(天經地義) right and proper; right and unalterable; a matter of course
• 功利主义(功利主義) utilitarianism
• 地方主义(地方主義) regionalism; favoring one's local region
• 后现代主义(後現代主義) postmodernism
• 情义(情義) affection; comradeship
• 五行之义(五行之義) The meaning of the five elements ; the meaning of the five elements
• 改良主义(改良主義) reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed to revolution)
• 解构主义(解構主義) deconstruction
• 享乐主义(享樂主義) hedonism
• 义肢(義肢) artificial limb; prosthesis
• 女性主义(女性主義) feminism
• 同义语(同義語) synonym
• 见义不为无勇也(見義不為無勇也) to pass by an opportunity for doing the right thing is cowardly
• 义勇军(義勇軍) volunteer army
• 福音主义(福音主義) Evangelicalism
• 义结金兰(義結金蘭) to be close friends
• 多元文化主义(多元文化主義) multiculturalism
• 广义相对论(廣義相對論) general relativity; general theory of relativity
• 正义魔人(正義魔人) sanctimonious person; self-appointed moral arbiter
• 平均主义(平均主義) egalitarianism

Also contained in

顺义 、 结构主义 、 民权主义 、 马列主义 、 民国通俗演义 、 黄巢起义 、 义竹 、 民族社会主义 、 隋唐演义 、 义大利 、 日本军国主义 、 黄花岗起义

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• 卷十三　　列傳第三　宋宗室及諸王上 Volume 13 Biographies 3: Members of the Song Imperial Family 1 History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 209
• 卷97 島夷桓玄 海夷馮跋 島夷劉裕 Volume 97: Huan Xuan of the Daoyi People, Feng Ba of the Haiyi, Liu Yu of the Daoyi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 140
• 卷六十八 列傳第二十八 武二王 Volume 68 Biographies 28: Wu Erwang Book of Song 宋書 — count: 129
• 卷32　志第27 經籍一 Volume 32 Treatises 27: Bibliography 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 117
• 卷六十一 列傳第二十一 武三王 Volume 61 Biographies 21: Wu Sanwang Book of Song 宋書 — count: 107
• 卷二百〇二 志第一百五十五 藝文一 Volume 202 Treatises 155: Arts and Literature 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 92
• 第六十一回 Chapter 61 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 88
• 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 73
• 卷一百五十七 志第一百一十 選舉三 Volume 157 Treatises 110: Selection and appointment of Officials 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 71
• 卷八十二 列傳第三十二: 許敬宗 李義府 Volume 82 Biographies 32: Xu Jingzong, Li Yifu Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 65

Collocations

• 思义 (思義) 思義為愈 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
• 德义 (德義) 心不則德義之經為頑 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 行义 (行義) 禮以行義 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 父义 (父義) 父義和 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 文侯之命 Zhou Shu - Charge to the Marquis Wen — count: 4
• 六义 (六義) 故詩有六義焉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 3
• 义形于色 (義形於色) 孔父可謂義形於色矣 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
• 制义 (製義) 夫名以制義 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
• 君义 (君義) 君義 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 3
• 无礼义 (無禮義) 無禮義而求大功 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧甫田 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Fu Tian — count: 3
• 义不可 (義不可) 其義不可受於京師也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3