"Barbarians" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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夷狄	yí dí	non-Han tribes in the east and north of ancient China / barbarians
夷	yí	non-Han people, esp. to the East of China / barbarians / to wipe out / to exterminate / to tear down / to raze
东夷	Dōng yí	Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC
以夷制夷	yǐ yí zhì yí	to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom) / let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
僬侥	Jiāo Yáo	legendary dwarfs in the west of China / (by extension) barbarians in the southwest of China
小昊	Xiǎo hào	Xiaohao (c. 2200 BC), leader of the Dongyi 東夷\|东夷[Dong1 yi2] or Eastern Barbarians
攘夷	rǎng yí	to repel the barbarians