Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Yi; 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 2 80, the equivalent of the decimal prefix yotta-(Y) Yi (simplified Chinese: 亿; traditional Chinese: 億), an East Asian counting unit meaning 100,000,000
The last character of the father's name transfers to become the first character of the son's name. The last character of the son's name is then used as the first character of the grandson's name. A complete Yi name is composed of the clan name, the branch clan name, the father's name, and the person's own name (ex. Aho Bbujji Jjiha Lomusse).
Yi surname ranks 106th among other family surnames in mainland China with members up to more than 1.7 million, making 0.12% of total Chinese population. [citation needed] A 2013 study found that it was the 114th most-common name, shared by 1.75 million people, or 0.130% of the population, with the largest province being Hunan. [1]
Hou Yi (Chinese: 后羿) is a mythological Chinese archer. He was also known as Shen Yi and simply as Yi (羿). He is also typically given the title of "Lord Archer". He is sometimes portrayed as a god of archery or a xian [1] descended from heaven to aid mankind. Other times, he is portrayed as either simply half-divine or fully mortal.
Yi Ji (伊籍, fl. 200s–221), courtesy name Jibo, was an official serving in the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China; Yi Hai (伊海; 1698 – c. 1747) was a Chinese painter and merchant who frequented the Japanese trading port of Nagasaki; Yi Bingshou (伊秉绶) (1754–1815), Chinese calligrapher and political figure
Names range from the most popular — Zichen, Runchu, Yuanyun, Jiehong, Jietang and Zhiyu — to the rare, such as Xiao Dan, Yi Ming and Zhi Peng. When choosing a Chinese baby boy name, look for a ...
The Dongyi or Eastern Yi (Chinese: 東夷; pinyin: Dōngyí) was a collective term for ancient peoples found in Chinese records. The definition of Dongyi varied across the ages, but in most cases referred to inhabitants of eastern China, then later, the Korean peninsula and Japanese Archipelago.
Oracle bone script for shi 尸 "corpse" and yi 夷 "barbarian" In Chinese, the term "Four Barbarians" uses the character for Yi . The sinologist Edwin G. Pulleyblank states that the name Yi "furnished the primary Chinese term for 'barbarian'," despite paradoxically being "considered the most civilized of the non-Chinese peoples."