益 (yì)
benefit; advantage; beneficial
How 益 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 丷 — eight/divide
- Traditional
- 益
- Simplified
- 益 (unchanged)
Components
- 丷 eight/divide
- 一 one
- 八 eight/divide
- 皿 dish
Common words using 益
- 公益 gōngyì
- public welfare; public good; volunteer health or relief work
- 利益 lìyì
- benefit; (in sb's) interest; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 受益 shòuyì
- to benefit from; profit
- 收益 shōuyì
- earnings; profit
- 收益率 shōuyìlǜ
- earnings rate; earnings yield (finance)
- 效益 xiàoyì
- benefit; effectiveness; efficiency
- 日益 rìyì
- day by day; more and more; increasingly
- 有益 yǒuyì
- useful; profitable
- 權益 quányì
- rights and benefits
- 無益 wúyì
- no good; not good for; not beneficial
- 益友 yìyǒu
- helpful friend; wise companion
- 益智 yìzhì
- to grow the intellect; Alpinia oxyphylla, a type of ginger (Chinese medicine)
益 in a sentence
多做運動對身體有益。
Duō zuò yùndòng duì shēntǐ yǒuyì.
“Doing more exercise is beneficial to your body.”
How common is 益?
益 is the 648th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 81.3% of all running text.
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