忆
yì HSK5

remember

忆 (憶) yì
remember verb
to recollect or recall past events

爷爷晚年喜欢坐在树下忆起往事。

yé​ye wǎn​nián xǐ​huan zuò zài shù xià yì​qǐ wǎng​shì.

In his later years, my grandfather liked to sit under the tree and reminisce about the past.

memory expression
the faculty of remembering or a specific recollection

他博闻强忆，看过一遍的文字就能背诵。

tā bó​wén​qiáng​yì, kàn guo yī biàn de wén​zì jiù néng bèi​sòng.

He has a phenomenal memory and can recite text after reading it just once.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,333rd most common 92.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,125th most common 80.7 per million appears in 29% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.68 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
7.47 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
憶
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+5FC6

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)