apparatus

rites; appearance; present; ceremony

person (亻) + [sound: yí] (义) = human ceremony and appearance

The person radical anchors the meaning in human conduct — rites, ceremony, and appearance are all things people perform or embody. 义 lends the sound yí and does not carry the meaning here.

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RighteousnessPhonetic
A personSemantic

这台器是用来测量温度的。

zhè tái yí qì shì yòng lái cè liáng wēn dù de。

This apparatus is used to measure temperature.

开幕式上的式非常庄重。

kāi mù shì shàng de yí shì fēi cháng zhuāng zhòng。

The ceremony at the opening was very solemn.

Words with 仪

殡仪

bìn yí

funeral

郭子仪

guō zǐ yí

Guo Ziyi (697–781), Tang dynasty general who helped suppress the An Lushan Rebellion and served multiple emperors

陀螺仪

tuó luó yí

gyroscope

陶宗仪

táo zōng yí

Tao Zongyi (c. 1329-1410), Yuan dynasty scholar

飞行记录仪

fēi xíng jì lù yí

flight recorder

体温检测仪

tǐ wēn jiǎn cè yí

infrared body thermometer

下线仪式

xià xiàn yí shì

product launching ceremony

候风地动仪

hòu fēng dì dòng yí

the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡|张衡[Zhang1 Heng2] in 132

仪仗

yí zhàng

ceremonial weaponry

仪仗队

yí zhàng duì

honor guard

仪典

yí diǎn

ceremony

仪器

yí qì

instrument; apparatus

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