"Barbarians" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
