Yi
Appearance
(Redirected from Yi (Chinese surname))
Yi or YI may refer to:
Philosophic principle
[edit]- Yi (philosophy) (义; 義, righteousness, justice) among the Three Fundamental Bonds and Five Constant Virtues
Ethnic groups
[edit]- Dongyi, the Eastern Yi, or Tung-yi (Chinese: 夷, Yí), ancient peoples who lived east of the Zhongguo in ancient China
- Yi people (Chinese: 彝, Yí; Vietnamese: Lô Lô), an ethnic group in modern China, Vietnam, and Thailand
Language
[edit]- Yi (Cyrillic), the letter of the Ukrainian alphabet written "Ї" and "ї"
- Yi language or the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people of China
- Yi script, either of two scripts used to write the Yi languages
- Yiddish (ISO 639-1 language code: yi), the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews
Mythology and religion
[edit]- Yi the Archer or Houyi, a heroic archer and hunter in Chinese mythology
- Yi (husbandman), also known as Boyi or Bo Yi, a heroic user of fire and government minister in Chinese mythology
People
[edit]Surname
[edit]- Yi (surname 易)
- Yi (surname 伊)
- Yi (Korean surname), including
- House of Yi, household of Joseon and the Korean Empire
- Yi Sun-sin (1545–1598), Korean admiral
Given name
[edit]- Lu Yi (disambiguation), several persons
- Wu Yi (politician) (born 1938), Vice Premier of China
Places
[edit]- Yi County (disambiguation), two counties in China
- Yí River, a river in Uruguay
- Yi River (Henan), a river in China
- Serbia and Montenegro (FIPS country code: YI), a country in Southeast Europe
Other uses
[edit]- Yi (dinosaur)
- Yi (drinkware) (彝), former name for the zun, a traditional bronze drinkware of ancient China
- Yi (prefix symbol), the prefix symbol of the binary unit prefix yobi, representing 280, the equivalent of the decimal prefix yotta- (Y)
- Yi (simplified Chinese: 亿; traditional Chinese: 億), an East Asian counting unit meaning 100,000,000
- Yi (vessel) (匜), a different kind of bronze vessel used in traditional rituals in ancient China
- YI Technology, a Chinese company that manufactures cameras and computer vision technologies
- I Ching, or Yijing, ancient Chinese text
- "Yi" and "iMi", songs by American indie folk bank Bon Iver