明夷

Chinese

		clear; bright; to understand clear; bright; to understand; next; the Ming dynasty	safe; to raze; to exterminate safe; to raze; to exterminate; barbarian
simp. and trad. (明夷)		明	夷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míngyí

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: míngyí
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: míngyí
    • Wade–Giles: ming²-i²
    • Yale: míng-yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mingyi
    • Palladius: минъи (minʺi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵ i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ming⁴ ji⁴
    • Yale: mìhng yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴ ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴ yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹ jiː²¹/

Noun

明夷

1. the thirty-sixth hexagram of the I Ching, known as darkening of the light.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
明	夷
めい Grade: 2	い Jinmeiyō
kan'on	on'yomi

Noun

明(めい)夷(い) • (meī) 

1. the thirty-sixth of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching ䷣

   Hypernym: 六十四卦