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 in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Numbering nine million people, they are the sev ...

(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 tau ...

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 ve ...

(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 pronunciatio ...

, 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 (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), 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), two counties in China * Yí River, a river in Uruguay * Yi River (Henan), a river in China * Serbia and Montenegro (FIPS country code: YI), a country in Southeast Europe

Other uses

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