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夷
Mandarin: yi2
Definitions
  1. 1 non-Han people, esp. to the East of China
  2. 2 barbarians
  3. 3 to wipe out
  4. 4 to exterminate
  5. 5 to tear down
  6. 6 to raze
  7. 7 wound
  8. 8 ancient plough like implement
  9. 9 to pacify
  10. 10 to squash
  11. 11 to raze to the ground
  12. 12 to annihilate as punishment for serious offences
  13. 13 level
  14. 14 calm
  15. 15 much
  16. 16 foreigner
  17. 17 foreign
  18. 18 foreign countries
  19. 19 # adapted from cc-cedict
Words containing 夷
夷然
calm
夷戮
to massacre
以夷制夷
use the barbarians to stop/control the barbarians; use the foreigners to stop/co
夷洲
land of barbarians; name of Taiwan in the third century AD
夏威夷堅果
Macadamia nut; also called 澳洲堅果
夏威夷
Hawaii
夷滅
to massacre; to die out
化險為夷
(saying) Forestall all risk and be safe
匪夷所思
unbelievable; incredible; unthinkable; unimaginably queer
夷猶
to hesitate
夷陵
Yiling (barbarian mound), burial place of the former Chu kings
鄙夷
despise; disdain
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