意yì

or appearance persists. --- Modern simplified form (簡體). 意 (yì, "meaning, idea, intention") merges the sound (音) with the heart (心), literally “what the heart hears” – the inner sense of purpose or meaning. It serves as a component in characters like 億 (hundred million), 噫 (alas), and 薏 (coix seed), extending its semantic field from thought to large numbers and exclamations.