Yi or YI may refer to:

Philosophic Principle

* Yì (义; 義, righteousness, justice) among the 三綱五常

Ethnic groups

Dongyi The Dongyi or Eastern Yi () 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 Ja ...

, the Eastern Yi, or Tung-yi (Chinese: , ''Yí''), ancient peoples who lived east of the Zhongguo in ancient China *

Yi people The Yi or Nuosu people,; zh, c=彝族, p=Yízú, l=Yi ethnicity historically known as the Lolo,; vi, Lô Lô; th, โล-โล, Lo-Lo are an ethnic group An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with eac ...

(Chinese: , ''Yí''; Vietnamese: ''Lô Lô''), an ethnic group in modern China, Vietnam, and Thailand

Language

Yi (Cyrillic) Yi (Ї ї; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letter iota with diaeresis. It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letter Іі, which saw change from two dots to one in 18th century, possibly insp ...

, the letter of the Ukrainian alphabet written "Ї" and "ї" *

Yi language Nuosu or Nosu (, transcribed as ), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language () and, as such, is the only one taug ...

or the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people of China *

Yi script The Yi script (Yi: ; ) is an umbrella term for two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi Syllabary. The script is historically known in Chinese as ''Cuan Wen'' () or ''Wei Shu'' () and var ...

, an umbrella term for two scripts used to write the Yi languages *

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

(ISO 639-1 language code: yi), the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews

Mythology and religion

Yi the Archer Hou Yi () is a mythological Chinese archer. He was also known as Shen Yi and simply as Yi (). He is also typically given the title of "Lord Archer". He is sometimes portrayed as a god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind. Other times, ...

or Houyi, a heroic archer and hunter in Chinese mythology *

Yi (husbandman) Yi ( Chinese: , ''Yì''; millennium BCE) was a tribal leader of Longshan culture and a culture hero in Chinese mythology who helped Shun and Yu the Great control the Great Flood; he served afterwards as a government minister and a successor ...

, also known as Boyi or Bo Yi, a heroic user of fire and government minister in Chinese mythology *

Yi (Confucianism) In Chinese philosophy, ''yi'' () refers to righteousness, justice, morality, and meaning. Confucianism In Confucianism, ''yi'' involves a moral disposition to do good, and also the intuition and sensibility to do so competently. ''Yi'' represen ...

, the Confucian virtue roughly equivalent to "righteousness" or "justice"

People

Surname

Yi (Chinese surname) Yì () is a Chinese surname, in Cantonese it is transliterated as Yick or Yik, the Chinese commercial code (CCC) of which is 2496. It is also rarely spelled as Yih or Ie, depending on where it is originated. Yi (이), is a phonetic pronunciation ...

, romanization of several Chinese surnames, for example: **

Yi Jianlian Yi Jianlian ( ; born October 27, 1987) is a Chinese professional basketball player for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He has also played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwauk ...

(born 1984), Chinese basketball player **

Yi Yuanji Yi Yuanji (; Wade-Giles: I Yüan-chi) (c. 1000, Changsha, Hunan – c. 1064) was a Northern Song Dynasty painter, famous for his realistic paintings of animals. According to Robert van Gulik, Yi Yuanji's paintings of gibbons were particularly ce ...

(1000–1064), 10th-century Chinese painter ** Yi Siling (born 1989), Chinese shooter, the first athlete to win a gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games *

Yi (Korean surname) Lee, I, or Yi () is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김). Historically, 李 was officially written as Ni () in Korea. The spelling officially changed to I () in 1933 when the initial sound rule () was established. In ...

, including **

House of Yi The House of Yi, also called the Yi dynasty (also transcribed as the Lee dynasty), was the royal family of the Joseon dynasty and later the imperial family of the Korean Empire, descended from the Joseon founder Yi Seong-gye. All of his descendan ...

, household of Joseon and the Korean Empire **

Yi Sun-sin Admiral Yi Sun-sin (April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean admiral and military general famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon Dynasty. Over the course of his career, Admiral Yi foug ...

(1545–1598), Korean admiral

Given name

Lu Yi (disambiguation) Lu Yi may refer to: *Lu Xun (Three Kingdoms) (183–245), original name Lu Yi, Eastern Wu general and chancellor of the Three Kingdoms period *Lü Yi (Eastern Wu) (died 238), Eastern Wu official of the Three Kingdoms period *Lü Yi (Shu Han) (died ...

, several persons *

Wu Yi (politician) Wu Yi (born November 1938) is a retired Chinese politician. She was one of the country's most visible leaders during the first decade of the 21st century, best known for taking on the role of Minister of Health from April 2003 during the SARS ...

(born 1938), Vice Premier of China

Places

* Yi County (disambiguation), two counties in China *

Yí River The Yí River (Spanish, ''Río Yí'') is a river in Uruguay. The Yí and the Tacuarembó Rivers are the principal tributaries of the Río Negro. Geography The Yí River originates in the Cuchilla Grande highlands. It flows generally west throug ...

, a river in Uruguay *

Yi River (Henan) The Yi River ( Chinese: 伊河; Pinyin: Yī Hé) is a tributary of the Luo River in the province of Henan, China. The river rises in Luanchuan County, and then flows through the counties of Song and Yichuan before entering Luoyang city proper ...

, a river in China *

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

(FIPS country code: YI), a country in Southeast Europe

Other uses

* ''Yi'' (dinosaur) *

Yi (drinkware) The ''zun'' or ''yi'', used until the Northern Song (960–1126) is a type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or square vase-like form, sometimes in the shape of an animal, first appearing in the Shang dynasty. Us ...

(), former name for the ''zun'', a traditional bronze drinkware of ancient China *

Yi (prefix symbol) A binary prefix is a unit prefix for multiples of units. It is most often used in data processing, data transmission, and digital information, principally in association with the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of& ...

, the prefix symbol of the binary unit prefix ''yobi'', representing 2⁸⁰, the equivalent of the decimal prefix ''yotta-'' (Y) * ''Yi'' ( zh, t=億 , s=亿), an East Asian counting unit meaning

100,000,000 100,000,000 (one hundred million) is the natural number following 99,999,999 and preceding 100,000,001. In scientific notation, it is written as 108. East Asian languages treat 100,000,000 as a counting unit, significant as the square of a myr ...

Yi (vessel) A ''yi'' is a shape used in ancient Chinese ritual bronzes. It has the shape of half a gourd Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly ''Cucurbita'' and ''Lagenaria''. The term refers t ...

(), a different kind of bronze vessel used in traditional rituals in ancient China *

YI Technology YI Technology, also known as Xiaoyi () in Mainland China markets, is a company that manufactures cameras and computer vision technologies. Some of the company's popular camera models include the YI 1080p Home Camera, and the YI Outdoor Security C ...

, a Chinese company that manufactures cameras and computer vision technologies * ''

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yi Jing'' (, ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zho ...

'', or ''Yijing'', ancient Chinese text * "Yi" and "iMi", songs by American indie folk bank Bon Iver