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伊
yī
What 伊 means
- oldthird person singular pronoun ("he" or "she")
- second person singular pronoun ("you")
- (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she")
- (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning
- (preceding a noun) that
- bound formIraq (abbr. for {伊拉克|Yī lā kè})
- bound formIran (abbr. for {伊朗|Yī lǎng})
Other readings
Example sentences
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是木乃伊！It's a mummy!
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木乃伊哭了。Mummy cried.
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木乃伊在工作。Mummy's working.
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伊凡搜寻莉玛。Ivan searched for Rima.
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木乃伊在行走。The mummy is walking.
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我是伊斯兰教徒。I am a Muslim.
Words starting with 伊
- 伊拉克Yī lā kèIraq
- 伊朗Yī lǎngIran
- 伊斯兰教Yī sī lán jiàoIslam
- 伊斯兰Yī sī lánIslam
- 伊丽莎白Yī lì shā báiElizabeth (person name)
- 伊凡Yī fánIvan (Russian name)
- 伊始yī shǐoutset; beginning
- 伊人yī rén(literary) that person (usually female); she; one's intended
- 伊甸园Yī diàn yuánGarden of Eden
- 伊斯坦布尔Yī sī tǎn bù ěrIstanbul, Turkey
- 伊藤Yī téngItō or Itoh, Japanese surname; Ito-Yokado (supermarket) (abbr. for 伊藤洋华堂
- 伊索Yī suǒAesop (c. 620–560 BC), ancient Greek storyteller and supposed author of Aesop's Fables
- 伊水Yī shuǐYi river in west Henan, tributary of North Luo river 洛河
- 伊面yī miànyi mein (or yee mee or yee-fu noodles etc), a variety of Cantonese egg noodle
- 伊尼特Yī ní tèVirgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
- 伊斯特Yī sī tèIstres (French town)
- 伊美区Yī měi QūYimei, a district of Yichun City 伊春市
- 伊利亚特Yī lì yà tèthe "Iliad", Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War
- 伊尼亚斯Yī ní yà sīAeneas
- 伊尼伊德Yī ní yī déAeneid
- 伊斯兰国Yī sī lán guóMuslim countries; caliphate; Islamic State group (aka IS or ISIL or ISIS)
- 伊比利亚Yī bǐ lì yàIberia; the Iberian peninsula
- 伊斯兰马巴德Yī sī lán mǎ bā déIslamabad, capital of Pakistan (Tw)
- 伊利诺Yī lì nuòIllinois, US state
Words containing 伊
- 木乃伊mù nǎi yī(loanword) mummy (preserved corpse)
- 郑伊健Zhèng Yī jiànEkin Cheng (1967-), Hong Kong actor and pop singer
- 阿伊努Ā yī nǔAinu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east)
- 巴伊兰大学Bā yī lán Dà xuéBar-Ilan University, in Israel
- 因努伊特Yīn nǔ yī tèInuit
- 两伊战争Liǎng Yī Zhàn zhēngIran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
- 巴哈伊Bā hā yīBaha'i (religion)
- 特洛伊Tè luò yīancient city of Troy
- 博伊西Bó yī xīBoise, Idaho
- 诺伊曼Nuò yī mànJohn von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath
- 休伊特Xiū yī tè(surname) Hewitt
- 特洛伊木马Tè luò yī Mù mǎTrojan horse
- 苏伊士运河Sū yī shì Yùn héSuez Canal
- 哈梅内伊Hā méi nèi yīKhamenei, Ayatollah Aly (1939-), Supreme Leader of Iran, aka Ali Khamenei
- 沙姆沙伊赫Shā mǔ Shā yī hèSharm el-Sheikh, city in Egypt
- 杰伊汉港Jié yī hàn gǎngCeyhan (Turkish Mediterranean port)
- 迈凯伊Mài kǎi yīMcKay or Mackay (name)
- 杜伊斯堡Dù yī sī bǎoDuisburg, city in the Ruhr 鲁尔区
- 扎伊尔Zhā yī ěrZaire, former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 卡尔扎伊Kǎ ěr zā yīHamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
- 阿伊莎Ā yī shāAyshe, Aise or Ayesha (name); Aishah bint Abi Bakr (c. 614-678), youngest wife of prophet…
- 木乃伊化mù nǎi yī huàto mummify; mummification
- 卡哇伊kǎ wā yīcute; adorable; charming (loanword from Japanese)
- 白纹伊蚊bái wén yī wénAsian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)
Characters that look like 伊
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
Sounds the same
Read yī, tone for tone, but written differently.
- 一one; single; a (article)
- 医medical; medicine; doctor
- 衣clothes; Kangxi radical 145
- 依to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to
- 壹one (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- 漪ripple
- 揖to greet by raising clasped hands
- 噫yeah (interjection of approval); to belch
- 咿(onomatopoeia) to squeak
- 铱iridium (chemistry)
- 瑿a black stone like jade; jet
- 祎excellent; precious; rare
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