Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
barbarian, savage, Ainu
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2324 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 夷 【イ】 barbarian
  • 夷国 【イコク】 land of the barbarians
  • 攘夷 【ジョウイ】 expulsion of foreigners
  • 征夷 【セイイ】 defeating barbarians (esp. the Emishi), conquering barbarians

Kun reading compounds

  • 夷 【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), foreigner, barbarian
  • 恵比寿 【えびす】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 東夷 【あずまえびす】 warrior from the eastern parts of Japan, eastern barbarians, people east of China (from the perspective of China)
  • 荒夷 【あらえびす】 crude warrior from the eastern parts of Japan, wild man

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi2
Korean:
i

Spanish

  • bárbaro
  • salvaje

Portuguese

French

182 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
535 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4349 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2962 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
5852 Morohashi
1143 New Nelson (John Haig)
2881 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2893 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a6.24 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-4 SKIP code
5003.2 Four corner code
1-16-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5937 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 俘囚 【フシュウ】 prisoner (of war), captive, Emishi allied with the Japanese during the Nara and Heian periods
  • 俘虜 【フリョ】 prisoner of war, captive
  • 夷俘 【イフ】 Emishi allied with the central government (ritsuryō period)

Kun reading compounds

  • 虜 【とりこ】 captive, prisoner, victim (of love, etc.), slave (to one's lust, etc.)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu2
Korean:
bu

Spanish

Portuguese

French

442 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
697 Morohashi
210 New Nelson (John Haig)
2a6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-7 SKIP code
2224.7 Four corner code
1-48-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4fd8 Unicode hex code