Yi

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
  • Yi language
  • Yi script
• 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.