The Chinese Radical: 異


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extraordinary, strange    異

Explanation This traditional was simplified to 异 ("yì") and also means: different, other, hetero-

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 4
to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc), to bear, support
dài
Right: variant of halberd , below: extraordinary (field , together ) [ was simplified to: 异] - Here, see top&right as variant of military (= with the ten men with the halberds )
In the military they are in the field and have together (the same cloths) put on.
JLPT HSK 6
wing, flank, to assist

Top: wings , below: extraordinary, strange (field [here seen as the body of a bird], together ) [ is often simplified: 异]
The two wings at the body of the bird are together with it: The wings that assist.
JLPT HSK 6
different, other, unusual, separate

(simplified from: ) Top: year of snake 巳 (here: self = Following the winding path I find myself.), bottom: two hands (= twice this hand next to each-other and combined)
The "self" of my two hands is different.
JLPT no HSK
to hope, wish, (abbr. for Hebei 河北)

Top: north (2 people sit back-to-back because it is cold in: the north.), bottom: differ, extraordinary (Put a rice paddy together (with other paddies) and you will see how much they differ.)
Also in the north, our fields shall be extraordinary: This is what we hope.
JLPT no HSK
thoroughbred horse, refined and virtuous

Left: horse /馬 (with mane 三, four legs und tail ㄅ), right: to hope, wish 冀 (Also in the north , our fields shall be commonly extraordinary /异: This is what we hope)
The horse, we hope for is: a thoroughbred horse.

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