演绎 yǎnyì▶ deducción

Stroke order

演绎 is written in 22 strokes across 2 characters.

• 演 — 14 strokes
• 绎 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. (of a story etc) to unfold; to play out
2. to develop (a technique etc)
3. to enact
4. (logic) to deduce; to infer

Related words

• 扮演Desempeñar el papel
• 演习ejercicio
• 演变evolución
• 演奏Jugar
• 络绎不绝Ir y venir en constante flujo
• 导演director

演绎 is pronounced yǎnyì and means “deducción”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 演绎 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.