Sentence examples for yi from inspiring English sources
proper noun
An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China
Then it became yi mei er, using characters based on the sound of the English word.
The travails of the yi zu, or ant tribe, have been well-chronicled recent graduates from outside the main cities well-chronicled recents, live cheaply and work hard, often in low-paid jobs.
On one visit, curiously, a room with a double bed had been prepared for her and Pu Yi.
One is a large holding built up by a former Swiss ambassador to Beijing, Uli Sigg; the second was accumulated by a mainland businessman, Guan Yi.
The patches of soil between the mountains are fertile enough, but the province's land has to support some 37m people, a mixture of the Han Chinese majority and the various peoples that lived here long before Chinese encroachment began in the 16th century: the Miao, Yi, Dong, Bouyei, Bai, Shui and the rest.
Its runner-up for length (at 2 hours, 53 minutes) was David Yang's absorbingly soap-operatic, Taiwanese film, "Yi Yi", about the tribulations of a computer businessman, which won the jury's "best director" award.
Radio Gune-Yi seeks to work out article 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says, "The child has the right to express his or her views, obtain information, make ideas or information known, regardless of frontiers".
Through Radio Gune-Yi, Plan International uses children to influence people's opinions and attitudes to controversial and taboo topics.
His remark was prompted by the scandal breaking around Woody Allen's affair with Soon-Yi, one of Ms Farrow's adopted daughters, and Mr Allen's subsequent application for custody of three more children.
Lame, blind, traumatised and paraplegic children have been absorbed into this unorthodox all-embracing family.To be allowed to adopt Soon-Yi, abandoned at about five in the streets of Seoul, she managed to get a bill through Congress changing the law.
Better water filters, then, could save many lives and improve many others, and Yi Cui of Stanford University thinks he has come up with one.Traditional filters work by forcing water through pores to weed out bacteria.
