易 yì
adjective
: easy; amiable; to change
Kun Reading
やすい yasui
adjective
easy
やさしい yasashii
adjective
easy; plain; simple
On Reading
えき eki
noun
divination; fortune-telling
い i
noun
easiness
易于 yi4yu2: very likely; prone to
易學[学] yi4xue2: easy to learn
[易学|えきがく ekigaku: study of divination]
易懂 yi4dong3: easy to understand
易溶 yi4rong2: soluble
容易 rong2yi4: easy; likely
[ようい youi: easy; simple; plain]
[容易にする | よういにする youi ni sure: to facilitate; make easy/simplify]
好容易 hao3 rong2yi4: with great difficulty; have a hard time
交易 jiao1yi4: (business) transaction/deal
[こうえき koueki: trade; commerce]
性交易 xing4 jiao1yi4: prostitution; commercial sex; the sex trade
輕[轻]易 qing1yi4: easily; lightly; rashly
簡[简]易 jian3yi4: simple and easy; simplistic
[かんい kani: simplicity; convenience; easiness]
難易 nan2 yi4: difficulty; degree of difficulty or ease
[なんい nani: difficulty; relative difficulty]
貿[贸]易 + 中心 mao4 yi4 + zhong1 xin1: trade + center
Japanese expression | idiom
易を見る | えきをみる eki o miru: to divine [ichidan vb]
易しい人 | やさしいひと yasashii hito: promiscuous person
案ずるより産むが易し | あんずるよりうむがやすし anzuruyori umuga yasushi
:it is easier to do something than worry about it; the anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face; fear overruns the danger; an attempt is sometimes easier than expected; it is easier to bear (a child) than to worry
生は難く死は易し | せいはかたくしはやすし sei wa kataku shi wa yasushi
: Life is difficult, while death is easy
Chinese idiom
談[谈]何容易 tan2he2 rong2yi4
: easier said than done
易如反掌 yi4 ru2 fan3 zhang3
: easy as a hand’s turn: very easy; no effort at all
變[变]色易容 bian4 se4 yi4 rong2
: to change color and alter one’s expression: to go white with fear; out of one’s wits
請神容易送神難 qing3 shen2 rong2 yi4 song4 shen2 nan2
: it’s easier to invite the (god) devil in than to send him away
象形 Pictographic.
(Theory 1) Picture of a lizard.
yi4 originally mean “chameleon” and was a picture of a chameleon.
The meaning “to change” is an easy extension of “chameleon.” The meaning “easy” is probably by sound loan
(Theory 2) Picture of containing pouring out water.
日 (ri4: sun; day; daytime) + 勿 (wu4: must not)
假借 Phonetic Loan.
Original form of 蜴 (yi4: lizard)
(形声-R) Pictophonetic-Reclarified.
虫 (chong2: insect) reclarifies the meaning while
易 (yi4: change; easy) provides both meaning and sound.
煙花易冷 Fade Away – Jay Chou 周杰倫
作詞：方文山
作曲：周杰倫
編曲：黃雨勳(夢想之翼)
繁華聲 遁入空門 折煞了世人
夢偏冷 輾轉一生 情債又幾本
如妳默認 生死枯等
枯等一圈 又一圈的年輪
浮屠塔 斷了幾層 斷了誰的魂
痛直奔 一盞殘燈 傾塌的山門
容我再等 歷史轉身
等酒香醇 等妳彈 一曲古箏
＊雨紛紛 舊故里草木深
我聽聞 妳始終一個人
斑駁的城門 盤踞著老樹根
石板上迴盪的是 再等
雨紛紛 舊故里草木深
我聽聞 妳仍守著孤城
城郊牧笛聲 落在那座野村
緣份落地生根是 我們
聽青春 迎來笑聲 羨煞許多人
那史冊 溫柔不肯 下筆都太狠
煙花易冷 人事易分
而妳在問我是否還 認真
千年後 累世情深 還有誰在等
而青史 豈能不真 魏書洛陽城
如妳在跟 前世過門
跟著紅塵 跟隨我 浪跡一生
Repeat ＊
雨紛紛 舊故里草木深
我聽聞 妳始終一個人
斑駁的城門 盤踞著老樹根
石板上迴盪的是 再等
雨紛紛 舊故里草木深
我聽聞 妳仍守著孤城
城郊牧笛聲 落在那座野村
緣份落地生根是 我們
緣份落地生根是 我們
伽藍寺聽雨聲盼 永恆
credit: Jay Chou 周杰倫
Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary
