益
yì HSK4

benefit

益 yì
benefit nounadjective
benefit; profit; advantage; good; used to describe things that are helpful or useful, as opposed to harmful

苹果对心脏有益。

píng​guǒ duì xīn​zàng yǒu yì.

Apples are good for the heart.

在任何年龄戒烟都有益于健康。

zài rèn​hé nián​líng jiè yān dōu yǒu yì yú jiàn​kāng.

Quitting smoking at any age is beneficial for health.

more adverb
increasingly; more; all the more; used to indicate a deepening degree
to increase noun
to increase; to add; to augment
Yi
the 42nd Hexagram of the I Ching (䷩)
surname
a Chinese surname
to overflow
to overflow; to flood; the original form of 溢 yì

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Frequency
Character
Written text
649th most common 314.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,589th most common 37.4 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.49 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
16.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+76CA

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