- 薏苡 yìyǐ Job's tearsa cereal grass plant with teardrop-shaped seeds used in cooking and traditional medicine; also known as adlay millet or Chinese pearl barley
- 芣苡 fúyǐ plantain(archaic) synonym for [[车前|車前|che1 qian2]] (the common plantain)
- 苡仁 yǐrén Job's tearsSeed of the Job's tears plant used in cooking and Chinese medicine; also known as [[薏米|薏米|yi4 mi3]].
- 苡米 yǐmǐ Job's tearsseed or grain of the Job's tears plant used in cooking and Chinese medicine
- 薏苡之谤 yìyǐzhībàng to be falsely accused of corruptionTo be slandered or accused of bribery despite being innocent; based on a story of a general accused of smuggling pearls that were actually Job's tears seeds
- 薏苡仁 yìyǐrén Job's tears seedThe white, oval-shaped seed of the Job's tears plant used in food and traditional medicine
- 薏苡明珠 yìyǐmíngzhū to be falsely accused of briberyto suffer from false rumors or be unjustly slandered; literally referring to General Ma Yuan being accused of bringing back pearls when he actually brought back Job's tears seeds
Sources
- Frequency data
- MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CH