倚

• 拼音: yǐ
• 汉字拆解: 倚 = 亻 + 奇 (person radical + odd/tilting phonetic — a person leaning or off-balance)

含义

To lean against; to rest one's body on. Also: to rely on or depend on (someone or something). Can be physical or figurative.

In its physical sense, 倚 describes leaning one's body against a surface (倚墙 — lean against the wall, 倚栏 — lean on a railing). In its figurative sense it means to rely on power, status, or connections (倚仗 — exploit/rely on, 倚老卖老 — trade on one's seniority). More literary in register than 靠.

例句

1. 老人倚着门框，目送儿子的车辆消失在拐角处，久久没有移步。
2. 她倚栏远望，将远处起伏的山脉与近处的湖面尽收眼底，心中顿生万千感慨。
3. 这名官员倚仗自己与上级的特殊关系横行无忌，令同事们敢怒不敢言。

用法指南

语境: literary, description, narrative, figurative

语气: neutral

正确说法

• 病房里，老人倚在枕头上，精神头已不如从前，却仍努力撑起微笑，向每位前来探视的亲友道谢，那份坚韧令所有人动容。(In the ward, the old man leaned against his pillow — his energy not what it once was — yet he still mustered a smile and thanked every visiting relative and friend, his resilience moving everyone present.)
• 她从小倚仗父亲在商界的广泛人脉获得了第一份工作机会，但她深知若不靠自身实力证明价值，这份起步优势迟早会成为他人诟病的把柄。(From a young age she relied on her father's business connections to secure her first job, but she knew that if she could not prove her worth through her own abilities, this head start would sooner or later become a target of others' criticism.)

错误说法

• 他倚了那本书一整天 — 倚 as 'lean against' requires a surface or fixed object, not a handheld item; use 靠着、依着 for leaning on a surface, and specify the object correctly

起源与历史

倚 = 亻 (person radical) + 奇 (odd/off-balance — phonetic component). 奇 also provides a semantic hint of something tilting or off-centre.

文化背景

时代: Classical/Modern

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal