夷
yí HSK7

ancient barbarian tribes

夷 yí
raze verb
to wipe out, exterminate, or level to the ground

为了扩宽马路，施工队将路边的土堆全部夷平了。

wèi​le kuò kuān mǎ​lù, shī​gōng​duì jiāng lù​biān de tǔ​duī quán​bù yí píng le.

To widen the road, the construction team leveled all the dirt mounds by the roadside.

barbarian noun
non-Han people, especially those historically located to the east of China

他在读古籍的时候，发现里面常提到夷这个称呼。

tā zài dú gǔ​jí de shí​hou, fā​xiàn lǐ​miàn cháng tí​dào yí zhè​ge chēng​hu.

While reading ancient texts, he noticed that the term 'Yi' was frequently mentioned.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,337th most common 24.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,141st most common 15.4 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.830 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
6.03 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5937

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)