驛 (yì)

relay station/post horse

How 驛 is written

Strokes
23
Radical
馬 — horse
Traditional
驛
Simplified
驿

Components

Common words using 驛

驛站 yìzhàn
inn; relay station for post horses (old)
龍泉驛 lóngquányì
Longquanyi district of Chengdu city 成都市[Cheng2 du1 shi4], Sichuan
驛城 yìchéng
Yicheng district of Zhumadian city 駐馬店市|驻马店市[Zhu4 ma3 dian4 shi4], Henan
驛馬 yìmǎ
post horse

驛 in a sentence

這條老街以前是個驛站。

Zhè tiáo lǎojiē yǐqián shì gè yìzhàn.

“This old street used to be a relay station.”

How common is 驛?

驛 is the 3,640th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.6% of all running text.

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