Yi

Yi or YI may refer to:

Philosophic principle

• Yi (philosophy) (义; 義, righteousness, justice) among the Three Fundamental Bonds and Five Constant Virtues

Ethnic groups

• Dongyi, the Eastern Yi, or Tung-yi (Chinese: 夷, Yí), ancient peoples who lived east of the Zhongguo in ancient China
• Yi people (Chinese: 彝, Yí; Vietnamese: Lô Lô), an ethnic group in modern China, Vietnam, and Thailand

Language

• Yi (Cyrillic), the letter of the Ukrainian alphabet written "Ї" and "ї"
• Yi language or the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people of China
• Yi script, either of two scripts used to write the Yi languages
• Yiddish (ISO 639-1 language code: yi), the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews

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

People

Surname

• Yi (surname 易)
• Yi (surname 伊)
• Yi (Korean surname), including
  • House of Yi, household of Joseon and the Korean Empire
  • Yi Sun-sin (1545–1598), Korean admiral

Given name

• Lu Yi (disambiguation), several persons
• Wu Yi (politician) (born 1938), Vice Premier of China

Places

• Yi County (disambiguation), two counties in China
• Yí River, a river in Uruguay
• Yi River (Henan), a river in China
• Serbia and Montenegro (FIPS country code: YI), a country in Southeast Europe

Other uses

• Yi (dinosaur)
• Yi (drinkware) (彝), former name for the zun, a traditional bronze drinkware of 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 (simplified Chinese: 亿; traditional Chinese: 億), an East Asian counting unit meaning 100,000,000
• Yi (vessel) (匜), a different kind of bronze vessel used in traditional rituals in ancient China
• YI Technology, a Chinese company that manufactures cameras and computer vision technologies
• I Ching, or Yijing, ancient Chinese text
• "Yi" and "iMi", songs by American indie folk bank Bon Iver

See also

• Yii
• Yi Prefecture (disambiguation)