Character #361: 亦 yì
2 Lessons
Make a Movie 亦
KEYWORD:
Armpits
Pinyin:
yì
Actor:
yi-/y- Female
Set:
-Ø childhood home
Room within Set:
Bathroom or Backyard
Prop(s):
This is a pictograph of a guy with sweaty and smelly armpits. Have your Actor running into this smelly fellow in the bathroom or backyard of your childhood home and you are set.
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Sandy
That’s kinda funny 😂
Will R
KEYWORD: 亦 yì Armpits
Actor: Yi-
Set: -Ø childhood home
Room within Set (tone): Bathroom
Prop(s): 亦 (This is a pictograph of a guy with sweaty and smelly armpits)Make a movie:
1. Yi- at -Ø childhood home's Bathroom
2. Austin Powers walks in with very hairy Armpits (亦)
3. Austin Powers tries to be saucy to her and says: "Would you be so kind to Spray my Armpits for me baby?"
4. Yi- is very grossed out by his hairy Armpits and so she bashes him into Orbit亦 Prop = Austin Powers or Spray
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZTpv6GwHS0&t=4000s
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Matt Shubert
I have to ask - in Pleco, there is no definition matching "armpit" or anything even close to that, it just says "also; too [literary adverb]". Is the meaning given here purely invented by you guys to help us remember the character? (totally fine with me, I'm just really curious!)
Mandarin Blueprint
Haha, I suppose you didn't watch the video. The real meaning is quite archaic, so we just recommend coming up with a guy with sweaty armpits so you can remember it moving forward. Far more useful as a prop than a character.
Teodor Ruokolainen
According to the Outlier dictionary plugin in Pleco, this character did actually originally depict a man with the "sweat drops" being markers indicating the armpits. So "armpit" is the original meaning. The character later was adopted for the word "also" as a sound loan. Meaning that instead of creating a new character for the word "also" they used the character for "armpit" since they had similar sound.
Rick Angleland
Maybe smelly/sweaty makes it stick in your memory, but since our yi actor is female, I'm just going to give her hairy armpits.