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Yizymes are the smallest units of meaning that make up the meaning of a word, that is, the distinguishing features of a word's meaning.

Yi element, a modern semantic term, refers to the unit of meaning (or content) in a language, also known as a yizi, as opposed to units of linguistic form such as phonemes, syllables, etc., which include yi sentence, yi clump, yizi (meme, the smallest unit of meaning equivalent to yizi item). A semantic element, also known as a semantic constituent or semantic feature, is the constituent of a word's semantic position.

The traditional study of word meaning only analyzes to the word's semantic position (equivalent to a lexicographic item). Modern linguistics employs the method of the analysis of the meanings of the elements to explore the meaning of words at the micro level, which further breaks down the meanings of the bits of meaning, which are originally considered to be the smallest units of meaning, so as to discover the deeper meaning components and structures.

It can be said that this method of morpheme analysis has found a new perspective for observing the meaning of language, and has made a certain contribution to exploring the meaning of language. However, as a kind of imported language research method, the analysis of meaning is not mature enough and very imperfect in the current Chinese language research. There are many theoretical problems to be cognized and practical operations to be explored.

An ideograph is the smallest unit of meaning that constitutes a morpheme, i.e., the distinguishing feature of a morpheme. It is a semantic unit one level lower than the semantic bit obtained by decomposing the semantic bit. It cannot be directly observed in the semantic system, so it belongs to the micro level of semantics.