藝 (ngai6 | yi4) : art; talent; ability; craft

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藝

ngai6

yi4

art; talent; ability; craft; dexterity

Stroke count: 19

Level: 3

Radical: 艸 (#140)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

藝 / 艺

This word has been viewed 11622 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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藝術 ngai6 seot6 yi4 shu4 = art

工藝 gung1 ngai6 gong1 yi4 = craft

工藝品 gung1 ngai6 ban2 gong1 yi4 pin3 = handicraft, artwares, arts and crafts

手藝 sau2 ngai6 shou3 yi4 = skill; craft; workmanship

文藝 man4 ngai6 wen2 yi4 = literature and art; the fine arts

武藝 mou5 ngai6 wu3 yi4 = martial skills, combat ability

藝伎 ngai6 gei6 yi4 ji4 = geisha

藝者 ngai6 ze2 yi4 zhe3 = geisha

園藝 jyun4 ngai6 yuan2 yi4 = gardening

演藝 jin2 ngai6 yan3 yi4 = performing arts
See all 50 compounds (CantoDict reports 53 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 1 example containing 藝

每位藝術家對作品的細節一點都不敢苟且
All the artists pay very careful details towards their art pieces.

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Decimal representation of this word: 藝
Unicode code for this character: U+85dd (off-site link)

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