腋
(bound form) armpit; axilla; axil
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,350 U+814B
How 腋 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ (semantic, “flesh”) + 夜 (phonetic, yè)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 夜
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 夜 (yè) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夜 sound component | yè | night, dark; under cover of night |
| 液 | yè | fluid, liquid; juice, sap |
| 掖 | yè | to tuck, to fold; to support |
Words containing 腋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 变生肘腋 | biàn shēng zhǒu yè | lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep; trouble o… |
| 腋生 | yè shēng | axillary (botany); budding in the angle between branch and stem |
| 腋下 | yè xià | underarm; armpit |
| 腋毛 | yè máo | armpit hair |
| 集腋成裘 | jí yè chéng qiú | many hairs make a fur coat (idiom); many small contributions add up to sth big; many a mic… |
| 腋窝 | yè wō | armpit |
| 腋臭 | yè chòu | body odor; bromhidrosis; armpit odor; underarm stink; also called 狐臭[hu2 chou4] |
| 腋芽 | yè yá | axillary bud; bud growing from axil of plant |
| 肘腋 | zhǒu yè | lit. armpit; elbow and armpit; fig. right up close (to a disaster); in one's backyard; on … |