夷
イ, えびす, えみし, ころ.す, たい.らげる, し
barbarian, savage, Ainu
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The relevant oracle bone form of this character depicts 人 person (→ small person) proximate to 大 # stand outstretched (→ large person), the latter actually and figuratively looking downward upon the former → a tribe in east China the stature of which was smaller than that of the Han Chinese. *Barbarian* and *subjugate* are associated meanings, while *Ainu* and *Ebisu* (one of the seven gods of good fortune) are borrowed meanings. Other pejorative names for countries and their residents that involve shortness include 魏 and 倭.
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