Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yí
English
- ancient barbarian tribes
- non-Han people, esp. to the East of China
- barbarians
- to wipe out
- to exterminate
- to tear down
- to raze
- a derogatory name used to call countries or ethnicities other than China in the ancient times
- to raze to the ground
- flat; safe
粵語
- 古時對中原以外國家、種族嘅貶稱
- 鏟平一個地方
- 平安
As a component in · 45
Words containing 夷
- 鄙夷pei2 ji4
to despise; to look down on; to feel contempt for
- 夏威夷haa6 wai1 ji4
Hawaii, US state
- 夷為平地ji4 wai4 ping4 dei6
to level
- 匪夷所思fei2 ji4 so2 si1
unimaginable
- 夷門ji4 mun4
the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states
- 夷然ji4 jin4
calm
- 夷滅ji4 mit6
to massacre
- 蠻夷maan4 ji4
common term for non-Han peoples in former times, not exclusively derogatory
- 凌夷ling4 ji4
to deteriorate
- 化險為夷faa3 him2 wai4 ji4
to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
- 夷戮ji4 luk6
to massacre
- 夷曠ji4 kwong3
expansive
- 攘夷joeng4 ji4
to repel the barbarians
- 東夷dung1 ji4
Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC
- 夷平ji4 ping4
to level; to raze to the ground
- 色夷sik1 ji4
smiling genially
- 夷洲ji4 zau1
name of an ancient barbarian country, possibly Taiwan
- 蝦夷haa1 ji4
Emishi or Ebisu, ethnic group of ancient Japan, thought to be related to modern Ainus
- 逆夷jik6 ji4
invaders (insulting term)
- 夏威夷島haa6 wai1 ji4 dou2
Hawaiʻi, largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago
- 夷猶ji4 jau4
to hesitate
- 夷陵ji4 ling4
see 夷陵區|夷陵区[Yi2 ling2 Qu1]
- 陵夷ling4 ji4
to deteriorate
- 燒夷彈siu1 ji4 daan2
incendiary bomb