夷
non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
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How 夷 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A man 大 armed with a bow 弓
How to remember it
barbarian · Heisig RSH #2270
St. Bernard dog + 弓 bow
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 夷 as their sound component
These characters all use 夷 (yí) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夷 sound component | yí | ancient barbarian tribes |
| 姨 | yí | aunt, mother's sister |
| 胰 | yí | pancreas; soap |
| 荑 | yí | sprout; to weed |
| 痍 | yí | wound, sore, bruise |
| 咦 | yí | exclamation of surprise |
Words containing 夷
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夏威夷火山国家公园 | Xià wēi yí Huǒ shān Guó jiā Gōng yuán | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park |
| 夷为平地 | yí wéi píng dì | to level; to raze to the ground |
| 武夷山市 | Wǔ yí shān Shì | Wuyishan, a county-level city in Nanping City 南平市[Nan2 ping2 Shi4], Fujian |
| 三夷教 | sān yí jiào | the three foreign religions that had been introduced to China by the time of the Tang dyna… |
| 武夷山 | Wǔ yí shān | Mt Wuyi in Fujian; Wuyishan National Nature Reserve; see 武夷山市[Wu3 yi2 shan1 Shi4] |
| 化险为夷 | huà xiǎn wéi yí | to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster |
| 师夷长技以制夷 | shī yí cháng jì yǐ zhì yí | "learn from the foreigners in order to gain command of them", idea advocated by Wei Yuan 魏… |
| 夏威夷群岛 | Xià wēi yí Qún dǎo | Hawaiian Islands |
| 夏威夷岛 | Xià wēi yí Dǎo | Hawaiʻi, largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago |
| 夏威夷果 | Xià wēi yí guǒ | macadamia nut |
| 夷陵区 | Yí líng Qū | Yiling, a district of Yichang City 宜昌市[Yi2 chang1 Shi4], Hubei |
| 夷平 | yí píng | to level; to raze to the ground |
| 夷门 | Yí mén | the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states |
| 东夷 | Dōng yí | Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC |
| 色夷 | sè yí | smiling genially; to beam |
| 夷然 | yí rán | calm |
| 以夷制夷 | yǐ yí zhì yí | to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among them… |
| 烧夷弹 | shāo yí dàn | incendiary bomb |
| 夏威夷 | Xià wēi yí | Hawaii, US state |
| 匪夷所思 | fěi yí suǒ sī | unimaginable; outrageous; freakish |