逸
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(bound form) to flee; to escape; (bound form) (of a book, author etc) lost (to the ages) (variant of 佚[yi4]); (bound form) leisurely; relaxed; (bound form) to surpass the ordinary; outstanding; (bound form) reclusive
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 辵 +8
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 逸
- Common rank
- #1,833
- Unicode
- U+9038
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
flee · Heisig RSH #1448
兔 rabbit + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 逸
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 劳逸结合 | to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom) | |
| 一劳永逸 | to get sth done once and for all | |
| 好逸恶劳 | to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom) | |
| 以逸待劳 | to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy; to nurture one's strength and bide one's ti… | |
| 散逸层 | exosphere | |
| 安逸 | easy and comfortable; easy | |
| 逃逸速度 | escape velocity | |
| 逸事 | anecdote; lost or apocryphal story about famous person | |
| 闲情逸致 | leisurely and carefree mood | |
| 逸民 | recluse; hermit | |
| 逸乐 | pleasure-seeking | |
| 清逸 | fresh and elegant | |
| 逸话 | rumor; anecdote (not in the official record); apocryphal story | |
| 逸群 | above the common; outstanding; excelling; preeminent | |
| 散逸 | to disperse and escape; to dissipate | |
| 逸散 | (of gas, liquid, toxins, heat etc) to escape; to dissipate | |
| 劳逸 | work and rest | |
| 孙逸仙 | Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the… | |
| 逸闻 | variant of 軼聞|轶闻[yi4 wen2] | |
| 逸致 | carefree mood |