Yi
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Yi may refer to:
Ethnography and languages
- Dongyi, the Eastern Yi, or Tung-yi (Chinese: 夷, Yí), ancient peoples who lived to the east of the original Zhongguo during the prehistory of ancient China
- Yi people (Chinese: 彝, Yí; Vietnamese: Lô Lô), an ethnic group in modern China, Vietnam, and Thailand
- Yiddish language (ISO 639-1 language code: yi)
Mythology and religion
- 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 and ancient history
People
Surnames
- Yi (Chinese surname), romanization of several Chinese surnames, for example:
- Yi Jianlian, a Chinese basketball player
- Yi Yuanji, a 10th-century Chinese painter
- Yi Siling, a Chinese shooter, the first athlete to achieve a gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games
- Yi (Korean surname), including
- Yi dynasty, household of Joseon and the Korean Empire
- Yi Sun-sin, a Korean admiral
Given names
- Guo Yi, a minister during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history
- Wu Yi, the Vice Premier of China
- Lu Yi (disambiguation), several persons
Places
- Yi County (disambiguation), two counties in China
- Yí River, a river in Uruguay
- Yi River (China), a river in China
- Serbia and Montenegro (FIPS country code: YI)
Other
- Yi (Cyrillic), the letter of the Ukrainian alphabet written "Ї" and "ї"
- Yi (editor), a text editor written in Haskell
- Yi (drinkware) (Chinese: 彝), former name for zun, a traditional bronze drinkware of ancient China
- Yi (vessel) (匜), a different kind of bronze vessel used in traditional rituals in 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 (Confucianism), the Confucian virtue roughly equivalent to "righteousness" or "justice"
- Yi (dinosaur), a species of Middle Jurassic scansoriopterygid theropod dinosaur.
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