夷 — Chinese character
夷
yí
ancient barbarian tribes
- Pinyin
- yí
- Radical
- 37 ⼤ (Big)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 大 弓
- Formation
- ideographic — A man 大 armed with a bow 弓
- Japanese
- 夷 as a kanji
Common words with 夷
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 匪夷所思 | fěi yí suǒ sī | unimaginable; outrageous |
| 夷为平地 (夷為平地) | yí wéi píng dì | to level; to raze to the ground |
| 鄙夷 | bǐ yí | to despise; to look down on; to feel contempt for |
| 夷平 | yí píng | to level; to raze to the ground |
| 化险为夷 (化險為夷) | huà xiǎn wéi yí | to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster |
| 蛮夷 (蠻夷) | mán yí | common term for non-Han peoples in former times, not exclusively derogatory; barbarian |
| 烧夷弹 (燒夷彈) | shāo yí dàn | incendiary bomb |
| 以夷制夷 | yǐ yí zhì yí | to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties); Use Western scien |
| 夷狄 | yí dí | non-Han tribes in the east and north of ancient China; barbarians |
| 夷灭 (夷滅) | yí miè | to massacre; to die out |
| 攘夷 | rǎng yí | to repel the barbarians |
| 陵夷 | líng yí | to deteriorate; to decline |
English words written with 夷
夷 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 3 · Analects 11 · Art of War 1 · I Ching 8 · Mencius 43 · Zhuangzi 20 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 14
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 41
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 53
- Analects 3.5
- Analects 5.22
- Analects 7.14
- Analects 9.13
- Analects 13.19
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