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夷

barbarian
Stroke count: 6

Readings

On readingイ
Kun readingえびす、えみし、ころ.す、たい.らげる
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. barbarian
  2. savage
  3. ainu
  4. ebisuRtK

Radicals and components

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Components
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Compound words

蝦夷えみし
Emishi; Ezo; non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo; Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
夷国いこく
land of the barbarians
夷人いじん
barbarian
夷俗いぞく
barbaric custom
夷俘いふ
Emishi allied with the central government (ritsuryō period)
夷狄いてき
barbarians
蕃夷ばんい
savages
蛮夷ばんい
savages
攘夷じょうい
expulsion of foreigners
蝦夷茜えぞあかね
yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum)
蝦夷榎えぞえのき
Japanese hackberry (Celtis jessoensis)
蝦夷松えぞまつ
Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis)
蝦夷羆えぞひぐま
Hokkaido brown bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis)
蝦夷菫えぞすみれ
Viola eizanensis (flower in the violet family)
蝦夷蟬えぞぜみ
Lyristes japonicus (species of cicada)
攘夷論じょういろん
principle of excluding foreigners (late Edo period)
夷蛮戎狄いばんじゅうてき
the barbarians beyond the borders of old China
蝦夷黄菅えぞきすげ
lemon day-lily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, formerly Hemerocallis flava)
蝦夷黒貂えぞくろてん
Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)
蝦夷鳴兎えぞなきうさぎ
Ochotona hyperborea yesoensis (subspecies of northern pika)
勤王攘夷きんのうじょうい
loyalty to the emperor and expulsion of the foreigners
勤皇攘夷きんのうじょうい
loyalty to the emperor and expulsion of the foreigners
尊王攘夷そんのうじょうい
revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians
尊皇攘夷そんのうじょうい
revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians

Stroke Order

6 strokes

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