yí
夷 (yí) is a Chinese word meaning “non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out”.
Meanings
- 1non-Han people, esp. to the East of China
- 2barbarians
- 3to wipe out
- 4to exterminate
- 5to tear down
- 6to raze
Related words
夏威夷Hawaii, US state夷为平地to level匪夷所思unimaginable化险为夷to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster烧夷弹incendiary bomb鄙夷to despise; to look down on; to feel contempt for三夷教the three foreign religions that had been introduced to China by the time of the Tang dynasty: Nestorianism, Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism以夷制夷to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)凌夷to deteriorate夷平to level; to raze to the ground夷戮to massacre夷旷expansive