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腋

yè

armpit

🔤 Pictophonetic: ⺼ (flesh) provides meaning, 夜 provides pronunciation
HSK 12 strokes Uncommon (36%)
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Component Breakdown

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⺼
meat, flesh; organic compound
夜
yè
night, dark; under cover of night
⿰⺼夜 i

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Component Tree i

⺼
meat, flesh; organic compound
📷 Pictographic: Meat on the ribs of an animal; compare 肉
4 strokes
yè
夜
night, dark; under cover of night
💡 Ideographic: A person 亻 sneaking by under cover 亠 of night 夕
8 strokes HSK 5

Words Using 腋 (10)

yèxià
腋下 ↗
underarm / armpit
yè
腋 ↗
armpit / (biology) axilla / (botany) axil / Taiwan pr. <yì>
yèmáo
腋毛 ↗
armpit hair
yèchòu
腋臭 ↗
body odor / bromhidrosis / armpit odor / underarm stink / also called [[狐臭<húchòu>]]
yèyá
腋芽 ↗
axillary bud / bud growing from axil of plant
zhǒuyè
肘腋 ↗
lit. armpit / elbow and armpit / fig. right up close (to a disaster) / in one's backyard / on one's doorstep
biànshēngzhǒuyè
变生肘腋 ↗
lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep / trouble or danger in one's own backyard
yèshēng
腋生 ↗
axillary (botany) / budding in the angle between branch and stem
yèwō
腋窝 ↗
armpit
jíyèchéngqiú
集腋成裘 ↗
many hairs make a fur coat (idiom); many small contributions add up to sth big / many a mickle makes a muckle