夷
Meanings
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- 1.non-Han people, esp. to the East of China
- 2.barbarians
- 3.to wipe out
- 4.to exterminate
- 5.to tear down
- 6.to raze
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Wiktionary
- 1.ancient tribes in China
- 2.barbarian; foreigners; non-Han people
- 3.to treat as barbarian; to consider as Yi
- 4.flat; level; smooth; plain
- 5.peaceful; tranquil; safe
- 6.calm; placid; gentle (of disposition)
- 7.ordinary; common; usual
- 8.to make level; to equalize; to even out
- 9.to cut grass; to mow; to weed
- 10.to level (to the ground); to raze; to demolish
- 11.to eradicate; to exterminate; to annihilate
- 12.to suppress; to quell; to pacify
- 13.to close; to seal (gates, passes)
- 14.to reduce; to lower; to demote
- 15.to decline; to wane; to decay
- 16.an ancient hoe-like tool for weeding and leveling ground
- 17.to lay out; to arrange (specifically of a corpse); later written as 侇 (yí)
- 18.happy; pleased; joyful; later written as 恞 (yí)
- 19.to injure; to harm; later written as 痍 (yí)
- 20.constant; regular; normal; interchangeable with 彝 (yí)
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Etymology
Originally ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 矢 (“arrow”) + 弓 (“rope”); the original meaning was "to shoot" (arrows) according to Chen Bingxin (陳秉新). Later forms ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 大 (“person; big”) + 弓 (“bow”). According to Yuè Juè Shū (越絕書), 夷 (OC *lil) is also the Yue word for "sea" (1). Therefore, Schuessler (2007) proposes an Austroasiatic origin; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *d(n)liʔ (“large river, sea”) (whence Khmer ទន្លេ (tɔɔtŭənlei, “large river”) and Kuy [script needed] (thlèː, “sea”)). Meanwhile, Schuessler associates similar Hmong forms like Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao tl̥e (“river”) (< Proto-Hmong-Mien *gle) to *溪 (OC *kʰeː) "creek, rivulet, rill" instead. In contrast, Ferlus (2009) reconstructs 夷's Old Chinese pronunciation as [lɨ] and connects 夷 to Proto-Kra-Dai *k-ri: (“Kra-Dai endonym”) (whence Thai ไท (tai, “"Tai endonym"”) and Hlai Hlai (“"Hlai endonym"”)). However, Ferlus concedes that such a derivation of 夷 from *k-ri: "remains speculative, … not as firmly established as for Hlai and Tai/Thai".
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