Yi or YI may refer to:

Philosophic Principle

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

Ethnic groups

* Dongyi, the Eastern Yi, or Tung-yi (Chinese: , ''Yí''), ancient peoples who lived east of the Zhongguo in ancient China * Yi people (Chinese: , ''Yí''; Vietnamese: ''Lô Lô''), an ethnic group in modern China, Vietnam, and Thailand

Language

* Yi (Cyrillic), the letter of the Ukrainian alphabet written "Ї" and "ї" * Yi language or the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people of China * Yi script, 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 or Houyi, a heroic archer and hunter in Chinese mythology * Yi (husbandman), also known as Boyi or Bo Yi, a heroic user of fire and government minister in Chinese mythology * Yi (Confucianism), the Confucian virtue roughly equivalent to "righteousness" or "justice"

People

Surname

* Yi (Chinese surname), romanization of several Chinese surnames, for example: ** Yi Jianlian (born 1984), Chinese basketball player ** Yi Yuanji (1000–1064), 10th-century Chinese painter **

Yi Siling Yi Siling (; born May 6, 1989 in Guiyang, Hunan) is a Chinese female sport shooter specializing in 10 meter air rifle events, she is the gold medalists for 2012 Olympics, 2010 World Championships and 2010 Asian Games. Yi started shooting in 2 ...

(born 1989), Chinese shooter, the first athlete to win a gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games * Yi (Korean surname), including ** House of Yi, household of Joseon and the Korean Empire ** Yi Sun-sin (1545–1598), Korean admiral

Given name

* Lu Yi (disambiguation), several persons * Wu Yi (politician) (born 1938), Vice Premier of China

Places

Yi County (disambiguation) Yi County may refer to the following locations: *Yi County, Anhui (), Huangshan, Anhui *Yi County, Hebei ( Baoding, Hebei *Yi County, Liaoning (), Jinzhou, Liaoning *Yi County, Shandong (), now Yicheng District, Zaozhuang {{disambiguation, geo, c ...

, two counties in China * Yí River, a river in Uruguay * Yi River (Henan), 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) (), 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 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 different kind of bronze vessel used in traditional rituals in ancient China * YI Technology, 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