易 — easy; amiable; to change
easy; amiable; to change; to exchange
- Pinyin
- yì · Yì
- Strokes
- 8
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- recognition only
This character has more than one reading — yì, Yì — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.
How to write 易: 8 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 易 in the HSK syllabus: 11
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 容易róngyìeasy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt toHSK 3
- 交易jiāoyìto deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; dealHSK 5
- 轻易qīngyìeasy; simple; rashly; offhandedlyHSK 5
- 好容易hǎoróngyìwith great difficulty; to have a hard time; so easyHSK 6
- 贸易màoyìtradeHSK 6
- 易于yìyúvery likely; prone toHSK 6
- 简易jiǎnyìsimple and easy; simplistic; simplicityHSK 7–9
- 来之不易láizhī-búyìhard to come by; not easily obtainedHSK 7–9
- 轻而易举qīng’éryìjǔeasy; with no difficultyHSK 7–9
- 显而易见xiǎn’éryìjiànclearly and easy to see; obviously; clearlyHSK 7–9
- 易拉罐yìlāguànpull-top can; easy-open canHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.