Yi or YI may refer to:

Philosophic principle

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

(义; 義, righteousness, justice) among the Three Fundamental Bonds and Five Constant Virtues

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 Jap ...

, 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 (Nuosu language, Nuosu: , ; see also #Names and subgroups, § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in South China, southern China. Numbering nine million people, they are the seventh largest of the 55 Ethnic minorit ...

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

Language

Yi (Cyrillic) Yi or Ji (Ї ї; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letter iota with two dots. It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letter І/і, which saw change from two dots to one in 18th century, poss ...

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

Yi language The Loloish languages, also known as Yi (like the Yi people) and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of 50–100 Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of Southwestern China. They are most closely related to Bur ...

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

Yi script The Yi scripts (; ) are 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 various other names (), amon ...

, either of two scripts used to write the Yi languages *

Yiddish Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

(ISO 639-1 language code: yi), the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews * Yi, an obsolete Japanese kana

Mythology and religion

* Yi the Archer 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 successo ...

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

People

Surname

Yi (surname 易) Yi (易), also romanized as Yee, Yick, Yik, Jek is a Chinese surname. 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.中国四百大姓 ...

Yi (surname 伊) Yī () is a Chinese surname. It is also rarely spelled as Yih in Wade–Giles. According to a 2013 study, it was found to be the 289th most common surname, shared by 206,000 people or 0.016% of the population, with the province with the most bein ...

* Yi (Korean surname), 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 Yi Sun-sin (; ; April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean admiral and military general known for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin War in the Joseon period. Yi's courtesy name was Yŏhae (여해), and he was po ...

(1545–1598), Korean admiral

Given name

* Lu Yi (disambiguation), several persons *

Wu Yi (politician) Wu Yi (born November 1938) is a retired Chinese politician who served as a Vice Premier of China between 2003 and 2008. She was one of the country's most visible leaders during the first decade of the 21st century, best known for taking on the ro ...

(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 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 throu ...

, a river in Uruguay *

Yi River (Henan) The Yi River () 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. It joins the Luo River at Yansh ...

, a river in China *

Serbia and Montenegro The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro or simply Serbia and Montenegro, known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast Europe locate ...

(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 that indicates a multiple of a unit of measurement by an integer power of two. The most commonly used binary prefixes are kibi (symbol Ki, meaning ), mebi (), and gibi (). They are most often used in informat ...

, 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, link=no), 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 with a handle (often in the shape of a dragon) and usually supported by four legs. It is believed it was used to contain water for washing hands before ri ...

(), 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 ''Yijing'' ( ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The ''I Ching'' was originally a divination manual in ...

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