to recollect

to remember; memory

heart (忄) + sound (乙) = to recollect

The heart radical anchors the meaning — memory is something the heart holds. 乙 mainly contributes the sound yì and carries no separate meaning here.

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The second heavenly stemPhonetic
HeartSemantic

每次看到老照片,我都会起童年的时光。

měi cì kàn dào lǎo zhào piàn, wǒ dōu huì yì qǐ tóng nián de shí guāng。

Every time I see old photos, I recall the days of my childhood.

他静静地坐着,起了多年前与她相遇的那个傍晚。

tā jìng jìng de zuò zhe, yì qǐ le duō nián qián yǔ tā xiāng yù de nà gè bàng wǎn。

He sat quietly, remembering the evening many years ago when he first met her.

Words with 忆

随机存取记忆体

suí jī cún qǔ jì yì tǐ

random access memory (RAM)

回忆

huí yì

to recall

回忆录

huí yì lù

memoir

失忆

shī yì

to lose one's memory

失忆症

shī yì zhèng

amnesia

工作记忆

gōng zuò jì yì

working memory

快速记忆法

kuài sù jì yì fǎ

mnemotechnic method

快闪记忆体

kuài shǎn jì yì tǐ

(computing) flash memory

快闪记忆体盘

kuài shǎn jì yì tǐ pán

(computing) flash drive

忆苦思甜

yì kǔ sī tián

to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)

忆苦饭

yì kǔ fàn

unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships

忆述

yì shù

to talk (or write) about one's recollections of past events

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