抑
yì HSK7

press down

抑 yì
to restrain nounverb
(bound form) to restrain; to curb; to press down
or
(literary) used to connect phrases or clauses expressing a choice, similar to 还是 hái​shi
but
(literary) used to show a transition or contrast, meaning "but" or "however"
moreover
(literary) used to show a further level or addition, meaning "furthermore" or "and also"
[surname]
the Chinese surname Yi
low-pitched
(of voice or sound) low; deep; (of posture) bowed or lowered

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,748th most common 50.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,937th most common 21.5 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.19 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.79 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+6291

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