夷
- Meaning
- barbarian savage Ainu
- On reading
- イ
- Kun reading
- えびす | えみし | ころ.す | たい.らげる
- Nanori
- し
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 37
- Grade
- 9
- JLPT
- —
- Frequency
- 2324
Stroke order
Words using 夷
- 恵比寿 えびす — Ebisu
- 夷 えびす — peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu)
- 蝦夷 えみし — Emishi
- 攘夷 じょうい — expulsion of foreigners
- 夷国 いこく — land of the barbarians
- 夷人 いじん — barbarian
- 夷俗 いぞく — barbaric custom
- 夷狄 いてき — barbarians
- 勤王攘夷 きんのうじょうい — loyalty to the emperor and expulsion of the foreigners
- 蛮夷 ばんい — savages
- 焼夷弾 しょういだん — incendiary bomb
- 征夷大将軍 せいいたいしょうぐん — commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians (beginning in 794 CE)
- 尊皇攘夷 そんのうじょうい — revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians
- えびす顔 えびすがお — smiling face
- 荒夷 あらえびす — crude warrior from the eastern parts of Japan
- 東夷 あずまえびす — warrior from the eastern parts of Japan
- 蝦夷松 えぞまつ — Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis)
- 蝦夷菊 えぞぎく — China aster (Callistephus chinensis)
- 辛夷 コブシ — kobus magnolia (Magnolia kobus)
- 征夷 せいい — defeating barbarians (esp. the Emishi)
- 攘夷論 じょういろん — principle of excluding foreigners (late Edo period)
- えびす講 えびすこう — fete in honor of Ebisu (honour)
- 四夷 しい — Four Barbarians (non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China)
- 夷蛮戎狄 いばんじゅうてき — the barbarians beyond the borders of old China
- 東夷西戎 とういせいじゅう — barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China)
- 蝦夷狼 えぞおおかみ — Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai, extinct)
- 蝦夷山桜 えぞやまざくら — sargent cherry (Prunus sargentii)
- 噛柴 たむしば — willow-leafed magnolia (Magnolia salicifolia)
- 蝦夷縞栗鼠 えぞしまりす — Tamias sibiricus lineatus (subspecies of Siberian chipmunk native to Hokkaido)
- 蝦夷羆 えぞひぐま — Hokkaido brown bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis)
- 蝦夷地 えぞち — Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
- 蝦夷鹿 えぞしか — Hokkaido sika (Cervus nippon yesoensis)
- 蝦夷雷鳥 えぞらいちょう — hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia)
- 夷草 えびすぐさ — sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia)
- 蝦夷鼯鼠 えぞももんが — Pteromys volans orii (subspecies of the Siberian flying squirrel, endemic to Hokkaido)
- 蝦夷黒貂 えぞくろてん — Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)
- 優婆夷 うばい — upasika (devout female lay follower of Buddhism)
- 夷則 いそく — (in China) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp)
- 四手辛夷 シデコブシ — star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
- 波羅夷 はらい — parajika (rules entailing expulsion from the sangha for life)