宜 yí — suitable; appropriate
宜
Level 1 · Common HSK 1 #1278
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Detailed explanation
adjective
- fitting; suitable e.g 宜子 · 宜民 · 宜时 · 宜春
noun
- meat dishes;cook
- sacrificial god
- matter
- harvest e.g 宜年
- law;moral standard
- just
auxiliary verb
- should e.g 事不宜迟 宜蠲 · 不宜操之过急 · 宜速归 · 宜然 · 宜当
adverb
- certainly
- almost
Related words
- 便宜 cheap; inexpensive
- 适宜 suitable; appropriate
- 不宜 should not; inadvisable
- 因地制宜 to suit measures to local conditions
- 事宜 (make) arrangements
- 宜人 pleasant; agreeable (to the senses)
- 相宜 suitable; appropriate; becoming
- 宜于 suitable for; conducive to
- 占便宜 to get the better of; to take unfair advantage; to gain an advantage
- 权宜之计 a makeshift measure; an expedient stopgap
- 合宜 appropriate
- 小便宜 petty gain; small advantage
- 事不宜迟 the matter brooks no delay
- 便宜行事 to act as one sees fit; to use one's discretion on the spot
- 时宜 timely/at the right moment/appropriate to the occasion/opportune/to fit current
- 因时制宜 to adapt measures to the times; to suit action to the occasion
- 机宜 guidelines/what to do (under given circumstances)
- 得宜 proper and appropriate
- 面授机宜 to give confidential, on-the-spot instructions
- 因人制宜 to suit measures to the individual person