skill

art

Plant (艹) + sound yì (乙) = cultivated skill or art

The grass radical connects to planting and cultivation — early art was understood as tending and nurturing a living skill. 乙 provides the sound yì and carries no separate meaning here.

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The second heavenly stemPhonetic
GrassSemantic

他的技非常高,很多人都来向他学习。

tā de jì yì fēi cháng gāo, hěn duō rén dōu lái xiàng tā xué xí。

His skill is very high; many people come to learn from him.

这位老师傅的手好,做出来的东西很精细。

zhè wèi lǎo shī fu de shǒu yì hǎo, zuò chū lái de dōng xi hěn jīng xì。

This old craftsman's skill is good; the things he makes are very refined.

Words with 艺

造型艺术

zào xíng yì shù

visual arts

游艺

yóu yì

entertainment

游艺团

yóu yì tuán

group of actors or acrobats at a fair

游艺场

yóu yì chǎng

place of entertainment

游艺会

yóu yì huì

folk festival

陶艺

táo yì

ceramic art

颜艺

yán yì

(ACG) art of making humorously exaggerated facial expressions (loanword from Japanese 顔芸 "kaogei")

中国文学艺术界联合会

zhōng guó wén xué yì shù jiè lián hé huì

abbr. to 文聯|文联

中国游艺机游乐园协会

zhōng guó yóu yì jī yóu lè yuán xié huì

China Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (CAAPA)

传艺

chuán yì

to impart skills

六艺

liù yì

the Confucian Six Arts, namely: rites or etiquette 禮|礼[li3] (禮儀|礼仪[li3 yi2]), music 樂|乐[yue3] (音樂|音乐[yin1 yue4]), archery 射[she4] (射箭[she4 jian4]), charioteering 御[yu4] (駕車|驾车[jia4 che1]), calligraphy or literacy 書|书[shu1] (識字|识字[shi2 zi4]), mathematics or reckoning 數|数[shu4] (計算|计算[ji4 suan4])

园艺

yuán yì

gardening

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