First opened Friday, March 28, 2008
異
い
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difference (of opinion); strange, unusual
I, “strange”, is from Middle Chinese 異 (MC yiH).
Taken apart
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Written with 異
In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From Middle Chinese 異 (MC yiH). Compare modern Mandarin 異 /异 (yì, /i⁵¹/), Cantonese 異 /异 (ji⁶, /jiː²²/).”
Source: Wiktionary: 異 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.