抑 yì — to suppress; to restrain; to inhibit; to control; to hold back; to repress
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Basic definition
verb
Detailed explanation
verb
- (本写作“归”。会意。小篆字形，象用手抑人使跽。本义:按，向下压)
- press down e.g 抑扬 抑按 · 抑首 · 抑搔
- restrain e.g 抑勒 · 抑情 · 抑引 · 抑末 · 抑志 · 抑枉 · 抑削 · 抑挫
- demote e.g 抑卑 · 抑贬 · 抑退 · 抑损 · 抑黜
- hold back
- force e.g 抑配 · 抑勒 · 抑逼 · 抑留 · 抑掠 · 抑买 · 抑夺 · 抑籴
- worry
conjunction
- or
- but e.g 抑岂 · 抑且
- but also e.g 抑且
- perhaps;maybe
- 用在句首，无义
Related words
- 抑制 to inhibit; to keep down; to suppress; to restrain; to curb; to contain; inhibit
- 压抑 to constrain or repress emotions; oppressive; stifling; depressing; repression;
- 抑郁 depressed; despondent; gloomy; melancholy; dejected; low; depression; clinical d
- 抑或 or; could it be that...?; either; or perhaps; whether; or else; or maybe
- 抑郁症 clinical depression
- 抑扬顿挫 rising and falling with rhythm; cadenced
- 平抑 to stabilize; to curb (prices, emotions)
- 抑止 to restrain; to hold back
- 抑扬 modulation (rising and falling pitch); intonation; cadence; to rise and fall; rh
- 贬抑 belittle/depreciate
- 郁抑 depressed; gloomy; dejected
- 抑或是 or perhaps; could it be that