夷 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

barbarian, savage, Ainu

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • えびす
  • えみし
  • ころ(す)
  • たい(らげる)
Nanori (used in names)
Other languages
  • 拼音yi2
  • 한글i
  • Hán-ViệtDi

Basics

Strokes
6 strokes
Radical
女(おんな)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+5937

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): overlapping ⿻大弓

Words using this kanji

  • えびすpeoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu), provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city), brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan)
  • barbarian
  • 夷国いこく未開の国。野蛮な国。えびすの国。land of the barbarians
  • 夷人いじん未開人。野蛮人。 異民族。barbarian, savage, foreigner
  • 夷俗いぞく異国人、異民族の風俗。 未開人、野蛮人の風俗。barbaric custom, barbarian custom
  • 夷狄いてきbarbarians, aliens
  • 夷草えびすぐさsicklepod (Senna obtusifolia)
  • 夷則いそく中国音楽における十二律の一つで、基礎の音である黄鐘より8律高い音。 陰暦七月の異称。(in China) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp), seventh lunar month
  • 夷俘いふEmishi allied with the central government (ritsuryō period)
  • 夷鯛エビスダイJapanese soldierfish (Ostichthys japonicus)
  • 夷蛮戎狄いばんじゅうてき漢民族が中国の近辺にいた異民族を指した言葉。the barbarians beyond the borders of old China
  • 夷隅養護学校いすみようごがっこうIsumi Special Needs School (older name style)
  • 夷を以て夷を制すいをもっていをせいすto control foreigners by foreigners, to play one barbarian state against another

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(69 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
4-6-4
Four Corner
5003.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a6.24
Heisig
2893
Nelson
182