夷
Ideographic: A man 大 armed with a bow 弓Radical: 大
meaning for 夷 yí:
- - non-Han people, esp. to the East of China
- - barbarians
- - to wipe out
- - to exterminate
- - to tear down
- - to razeto despise
- - to look down upon
- - despicableto turn peril into safety (idiom)
- - to avert disasterunimaginable
- - outrageous
- - freakishto massacre
- - to die outYiling (barbarian mound), historical place name in Yichang county 宜昌县 Hubei, first mentioned in history (after its destruction by Qin) as burial place of the former Chu kings
- - Yiling district of Yichang city 宜昌市 , Hubei