Yi

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China. plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    a Loloish language, spoken by the Yi or Lolo people in China, Vietnam and Thailand wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by this people.
  2. 2
    A surname from Korean. Equivalent to Chinese 李 (Lǐ)
  3. 3
    A surname.

Synonyms

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dongyidongyilolololololo languagenosu

Example

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"Aceḥḥeḍ, asqulleɛ, aḥerref, aneqluɛ n yiḍaṛṛen, are the équivalent words to translate “tripped foot”."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 彝 (yí).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Korean 이 (I) (based on the South Korean spelling), hanja: 李, also spelled 리 (Ri), especially in North Korea.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Mandarin 易 (yì).

Related phrases

tibeto burman

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.