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Surname Yi

易 · 余

Yi is a Chinese surname, the pinyin spelling of 易 ('to change'), and also a Hakka spelling of 余.

Characters for the surname Yi

The spelling Yi is common in Mandarin (pinyin) and Hakka romanization.

  • 易

    to exchange; to change; surname

    Mandarin yì

    attested

  • 余

    I, me (literary); surname

    Hakka yì / Mandarin yú

易 all spellings of yì余 all spellings of yú

Possible characters for Yi

Yi 易 yì · Mandarin 余 yú · Hakka
The spelling Yi can stand for 2 characters. The spelling alone does not show which one a family uses.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
易yì · Mandarin
余yú · Hakka

Other spellings of the same character

  • Jek 易Cantonese
  • Eu 余Cantonese, Hakka
  • Ee 余Hokkien, Teochew
  • Yee 余Hokkien, Hakka

About the surname Yi

Yi is the Mandarin pinyin spelling of the surname 易 (yì). 易 is recorded in public data for Malaysians with this spelling. In Hakka the character 余 (Mandarin Yu) is read yì, so Yi can stand for it as well. As a word, 易 means 'to exchange' or 'to change'; what a surname means depends on the characters a family uses.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 易 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 易 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 余 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 余 · mdbg.net · meaning

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