Read Edit View history Discussion 蚁 yǐ ants Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 义 represents the sound. Simplified form of 蟻. Pinyin Separate values with commas yǐ × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 蚁 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas 蟻 ×蚁 × Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 蚁 Simp strokes 蚁 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 蚁 Simp strokes 蚁 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 蚁 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "animcjk", "medians": [ [ [ 106, 542 ], [ 141, 503 ], [ 178, 351 ] ], [ [ 159, 536 ], [ 393, 570 ], [ 414, 541 ], [ 379, 445 ] ], [ [ 193, 377 ], [ 423, 427 ] ], [ [ 225, 772 ], [ 285, 720 ], [ 264, 233 ] ], [ [ 64, 178 ], [ 133, 161 ], [ 394, 259 ] ], [ [ 370, 330 ], [ 447, 202 ] ], [ [ 524, 675 ], [ 644, 561 ] ], [ [ 710, 654 ], [ 763, 610 ], [ 735, 437 ], [ 675, 297 ], [ 555, 181 ], [ 369, 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