益

benefit; profit; advantage; beneficial; to increase; to add; all the more

10 strokes Dict coverage rank #974 U+76CA

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A container 皿 overflowing with water 水

components: 水皿

benefit · Heisig RSH #1401

dish + sparkler + 一 one + horns + animal legs

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 益 as their sound component

These characters all use 益 (yì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
益 sound component	yì	to profit, to benefit; advantage
溢	yì	full; overflowing
隘	ài	narrow, confined; a strategic pass
缢	yì	to hang; to strangle
谥	shì	posthumous name or title
嗌	ài	throat; to quarrel, to choke
镒	yì	a measure of weight used for gold

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
自身利益	zì shēn lì yì	one's own interests
公益事业	gōng yì shì yè	service to the public; public welfare undertaking; charity; social facility
社会公共利益	shè huì gōng gòng lì yì	public interest
公益活动	gōng yì huó dòng	charity event; public service activities
公益金	gōng yì jīn	public welfare funds; community chest
国防利益	guó fáng lì yì	(national) defense interests
益阳市	Yì yáng Shì	Yiyang, prefecture-level city in Hunan Province 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3]
共同利益	gòng tóng lì yì	common interest; mutual benefit
王益区	Wáng yì Qū	Wangyi, a district of Tongchuan City 銅川市\|铜川市[Tong2 chuan1 Shi4], Shaanxi
利益集团	lì yì jí tuán	interest group
本益比	běn yì bǐ	P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
道高益安，势高益危	dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi	More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's dange…
有害无益	yǒu hài wú yì	harmful and without benefit (idiom); more harm than good
开卷有益	kāi juàn yǒu yì	lit. opening a book is profitable (idiom); the benefits of education
有益处	yǒu yì chu	beneficial
多多益善	duō duō yì shàn	the more the better
受益人	shòu yì rén	beneficiary
得益于	dé yì yú	to benefit from; thanks to
无益	wú yì	no good; not good for; not beneficial
到期收益率	dào qī shōu yì lǜ	(finance) yield to maturity (YTM)