夷

Glyph origin
Originally. Later forms.

Etymology
According to Yuè Juè Shū (越絕書), is also the  word for "sea" (1). Therefore, proposes an  origin; compare 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬). Meanwhile, Schuessler associates similar forms like 🇨🇬 (< 🇨🇬) to  "creek, rivulet, rill" instead.

In contrast, Ferlus (2009) reconstructs 夷's Old Chinese pronunciation as [lɨ] and connects 夷 to 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬). However, Ferlus concedes that such a derivation of 夷 from *k-ri: "remains speculative, [...] not as firmly established as for Hlai and Tai/Thai".

Meanwhile, (2008) instead suggested that the Yi languages were ancestral to  and formed a sister-group to, probably related to 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) an ancient tribe in eastern China
 * 2) barbarian; foreigners
 * 3) to level; to raze
 * 4) flat; level; smooth
 * 5) to eradicate; to obliterate
 * 6) someone of the same generation
 * 7) happy; joyous
 * 8) 23rd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "ease"
 * 1) 23rd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "ease"

Kanji

 * 1) ancient tribes in eastern China
 * 2) level
 * 3) levelled destruction

Etymology 1
→ * → →

Shift from, modern Ezo.

Noun

 * : an ancient ethnic group attested in the  that once lived on what is now the, and , likely as far as , possibly related to the ; dubbed "barbarians" or "savages" by the Yamato.
 * 1) a person living far away from the, loosely translated to "bumpkin" or "hick"
 * 2)  a barbarian, savage, especially referring to the
 * 3) * 1204,  (book 1, poem 223)
 * 4)  a foreigner
 * 1)  a foreigner
 * 1)  a foreigner

Proper noun

 * , a Shinto god
 * , a Shinto god

Etymology 2
→

From, originally referred to one of the ancient tribes east of China.

Noun

 * 1) those people with differing languages and/or cultures
 * 2) a barbarian, savage; uncivilized people
 * 3) a neutral
 * 1) a neutral
 * 1) a neutral

Etymology
From.