毅
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firm and resolute; staunch
Formation & memory
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How 毅 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
殳 meaning “tool” + 豙 sound
Components 豙 殳
How to remember it
resolute · Heisig RSH #1889
立 standing up + sow + missile
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 毅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有毅力 | persevering; unwavering | |
| 毅然决然 | without hesitation; resolutely; firmly | |
| 柳毅传 | story of Liu Yi, Tang fantasy fiction by Li Chaowei 李朝威, popular with dramatist of subsequ… | |
| 毅力 | perseverance; willpower | |
| 方毅 | Fang Yi (1916-1997), senior party apparatchik | |
| 荣毅仁 | Rong Yiren (1916-2005), PRC Vice President from 1993-1998, played an important role in ope… | |
| 毅然 | firmly; resolutely; without hesitation | |
| 王毅 | Wang Yi (1953-), PRC foreign minister (2013-) and state councilor (2018-) | |
| 范志毅 | Fan Zhiyi (1969-), soccer player | |
| 刚毅木讷 | resolute and taciturn (idiom) | |
| 陈毅 | Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of … | |
| 坚毅 | firm and persistent; unswerving determination | |
| 刚毅 | resolute; steadfast; stalwart | |
| 刘毅 | Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynast… |