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Kanji Detail for 羿 - "yi"
羿
- Meaning
羿 means "yi."
Yi - A legendary hero and master archer who, during the reign of Emperor Yao, shot down nine of ten suns that appeared simultaneously.
Yi - A lord of the Youqiong state during the Xia dynasty, a skilled archer who neglected politics for hunting and was killed by his minister.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
legendary archer
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
legendary archer
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Yi; name of a legendary archer (also called 后羿[Hou4 Yi4])
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
a legendary archer
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A person's name. The lord of Youqiong in the Xia dynasty.
- Onyomi
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- Strokes
- Radical
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