易

easy; trade; ready to; simple; fortune-telling; divination

8 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 571.

Readings

• イ (on reading): 容易 (ようい) easy; 難易度 (なんいど) degree of difficulty
• エキ (on reading): 貿易 (ぼうえき) (foreign) trade; 交易 (こうえき) trade
• やすい (kun reading): 容易い (たやすい) easy; 案ずるより産むが易し (あんずるよりうむがやすし) it is easier to do something than worry about it
• やさしい (kun reading): 生易しい (なまやさしい) simple

Components

• 日
• 勿
• ノ radical slash, katakana no
• 勹 radical wrap
• 勿 radical not; don't
• 日 radical sun; day

Kanji containing 易

• 錫 copper
• 賜 grant
• 剔 cutting
• 裼 to bare the shoulder
• 蜴 lizard
• 鯣 cuttlefish

Words using 易

• 容易 (ようい) easy
• 難易度 (なんいど) degree of difficulty
• 簡易 (かんい) simple
• 安易 (あんい) easy
• 平易 (へいい) easy
• 貿易 (ぼうえき) (foreign) trade
• 交易 (こうえき) trade
• 改易 (かいえき) loss of samurai status and confiscation of territory and property (Edo-period punishment)
• 奴隷貿易 (どれいぼうえき) slave trade
• 貿易商 (ぼうえきしょう) trader
• 容易い (たやすい) easy
• 案ずるより産むが易し (あんずるよりうむがやすし) it is easier to do something than worry about it
• 割れ易い (われやすい) brittle
• 曲げ易い (まげやすい) pliant
• 覚え易い (おぼえやすい) easy to learn
• 生易しい (なまやさしい) simple
• 暴を以て暴に易う (ぼうをもってぼうにかう) to replace one tyranny by another
• 網易 (ネットイース) NetEase, Inc. (Chinese IT company)

183 words in all.

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