The Chinese Radical: 異


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Meaning
extraordinary, strange    異

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

Used in these characters:
HSK 4
to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc), to bear, support
dài
Right: variant of halberd 戈, below: extraordinary 異 (field 田, together 共) [異 was simplified to: 异] - Here, see top&right as variant of military 戎 (= with the ten 十 men with the halberds 戈)
In the military 戎 they are in the field 田 and have together 共 (the same cloths) put on.  
HSK 6
wing, flank, to assist

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

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

Top: north 北 (2 people sit back-to-back because it is cold in: the north.), bottom: differ, extraordinary 異 (Put a rice paddy 田 together 共 (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.  
no HSK
thoroughbred horse, refined and virtuous

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

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