夷
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non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 大 +3
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 夷
- Common rank
- #1,756
- Unicode
- U+5937
Formation & memory
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Words with 夷
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夏威夷火山国家公园 | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | |
| 夷为平地 | to level; to raze to the ground | |
| 武夷山市 | Wuyishan, a county-level city in Nanping City 南平市[Nan2 ping2 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 三夷教 | the three foreign religions that had been introduced to China by the time of the Tang dyna… | |
| 武夷山 | Mt Wuyi in Fujian; Wuyishan National Nature Reserve; see 武夷山市[Wu3 yi2 shan1 Shi4] | |
| 化险为夷 | to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster | |
| 师夷长技以制夷 | "learn from the foreigners in order to gain command of them", idea advocated by Wei Yuan 魏… | |
| 夏威夷群岛 | Hawaiian Islands | |
| 夏威夷岛 | Hawaiʻi, largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago | |
| 夏威夷果 | macadamia nut | |
| 夷陵区 | Yiling, a district of Yichang City 宜昌市[Yi2 chang1 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 夷平 | to level; to raze to the ground | |
| 夷门 | the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states | |
| 东夷 | Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC | |
| 色夷 | smiling genially; to beam | |
| 夷然 | calm | |
| 以夷制夷 | to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among them… | |
| 烧夷弹 | incendiary bomb | |
| 夏威夷 | Hawaii, US state | |
| 匪夷所思 | unimaginable; outrageous; freakish |
Sound family
These characters use 夷 as their sound component — compare how they read.