异
different; other; hetero-; unusual; strange; surprising; to distinguish; to separate; to discriminate
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #377 U+5F02
How 异 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 異; a person 共 with a scary face田
How to remember it
different · Heisig RSH #616
snakeskin + two hands
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 异
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大同小异 | dà tóng xiǎo yì | virtually the same; differing only on small points |
| 特异性 | tè yì xìng | specific; specificity; idiosyncrasy |
| 异化作用 | yì huà zuò yòng | catabolism (biology); metabolic breaking down and waste disposal; dissimilation |
| 异星人 | yì xīng rén | space alien; extraterrestrial |
| 异体字 | yì tǐ zì | variant Chinese character |
| 异特龙 | yì tè lóng | allosaurus |
| 异人 | yì rén | eccentric; unusual person; talented individual |
| 异国情调 | yì guó qíng diào | exoticism; local color; exotic |
| 异国 | yì guó | exotic; foreign |
| 日新月异 | rì xīn yuè yì | daily renewal, monthly change (idiom); every day sees new developments; rapid progress |
| 异心 | yì xīn | disloyalty; infidelity |
| 异病同治 | yì bìng tóng zhì | to use the same method to treat different diseases (TCM) |
| 无异 | wú yì | nothing other than; to differ in no way from; the same as; to amount to |
| 异地 | yì dì | different place; abroad |
| 异口同声 | yì kǒu tóng shēng | different mouths, same voice; to speak in unison (idiom) |
| 异性 | yì xìng | the opposite sex; of the opposite sex; heterosexual; different in nature |
| 异动 | yì dòng | to shift; to alter; unusual change; abnormal move |
| 异化 | yì huà | alienation (philosophy); (of speech) dissimilation |
| 异体 | yì tǐ | variant form (of a Chinese character) |
| 分异 | fēn yì | distinction; differentiation |