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Classical Yi – which is an ideographic script like the Chinese characters, but with a very different origin – has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but a proposal to encode 88,613 Classical Yi characters was made in 2007 (including many variants for specific regional dialects or historical evolutions. They are based on an extended set of ...
In Confucianism, yi involves a moral disposition to do good, and also the intuition and sensibility to do so competently. [1] [2] Yi represents moral acumen which goes beyond simple rule following, involving a balanced understanding of a situation, and the "creative insight" and decision-generating ability necessary to apply virtues properly and appropriately in a situation with no loss of ...
Characters are created according to several principles; aspects of shape and pronunciation may be used to indicate the character's meaning. The first attested characters are oracle bone inscriptions made during the 13th century BCE in what is now Anyang, Henan, as part of divinations conducted by the Shang dynasty royal house. Character forms ...
A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the "Chinese Character Information Dictionary", among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters and 3,053 polysemous characters.
The Yi play a number of traditional musical instruments, including large plucked and bowed string instruments, [41] as well as wind instruments called bawu and mabu . The Yi also play the hulu sheng, though unlike other minority groups in Yunnan, the Yi do not play the hulu sheng for courtship or love songs (aiqing).
The following three examples show that the meaning of the idiom can be totally different by only changing one character. 一 (yí) 日 (rì) 千 (qiān) 秋 (qiū) : "One day, a thousand autumns." Meaning: implies rapid changes; one day equals a thousand years; 一 (yí) 日 (rì) 千 (qiān) 里 (lǐ) : "One day, a thousand miles."
Characters are traditionally classified according to a system of six categories (六書; liùshū; 'six writings') according to the apparent strategy used to create them. This system was first made popular by the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary (c. 100 AD). Three of these categories involved a representation of the meaning of the word:
Yi Syllables is a Unicode block containing the 1,165 characters (1,164 phonemic syllables plus 1 syllable iteration mark) of the Liangshan Standard Yi script for writing the Nuosu (or Northern Yi, Sichuan Yi) language.