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TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 字
character · TOCFL 2 (est.)
ㄧˋ · yì
adj/verb — easy; to change, exchange

字源 FORM — what the parts do

rendered bare — origin contested
The old graph carries two tellings: a lizard, the color-changing chameleon (蜥易), its head and legs still traceable in the strokes — the creature that never holds one shade; or two vessels, one tipping its liquid into the other, a pour that hands something over. Either way the sense is change and exchange: 變易、交易. From change made effortless comes the everyday easy: 容易、簡易.
意 · Meanings
(本義)變易、交易— to change, exchange
容易、簡易— easy, simple — change made effortless常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
yángthe lookalike — 昜 stands a sun over rising lines (the 陽 family); has the chameleon's splayed legs below