Meaning

1 senses
  1. (plural, plural only)An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China.

    иi

More definitions
  • a Loloish language, spoken by the Yi or Lolo people in China, Vietnam and Thailand

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Hsin-yi got so much slimmer lately. Is it gym or heartbreak?

  2. Aceḥḥeḍ, asqulleɛ, aḥerref, aneqluɛ n yiḍaṛṛen, are the équivalent words to translate “tripped foot”.

Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
ethnic group:

Origin

From Mandarin 彝 (yí).

From Mandarin 彝 (yí).

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Forms

plural: Yis
SingularYi
PluralYis

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a Loloish language, spoken by the Yi or Lolo people in China, Vietnam and Thailand:LoloLolo languageYi language

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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