幣辛夷

しでこぶし

Magnolia praecocissima, shidekobushi Magnolia kobus

辛辛

からがら から がら

barely

夷

えびす い

barbarian

以夷制夷

controlling foreigners by foreigners; playing one barbarian state against another

以夷攻夷

いいこうい

controlling foreigners by foreigners; playing one barbarian state against another

辛

かのと しん からし

8th in rank, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar

夷国

いこく えびすこく

land of the barbarians

夷狄

いてき

barbarians, aliens

蛮夷

ばんい

savages, barbarians

蝦夷

えぞ えみし

historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan

東夷

あずまえびす とうい

(in Japanese history) warrior from the eastern parts of Japan

征夷

せいい せいえびす

warring against barbarians

焼夷

burning (something) away; burning (something) down

華夷

かい

China and foreign countries (from the perspective of China), civilized land and uncivilized land

攘夷

じょうい

expel the barbarians, expulsion of the foreigners, late Edo period (19th century) revolutionary slogan

夷俘

いふ

Emishi allied with the central government (ritsuryō period)

夷俗

いぞく えびすぞく

customs of the barbarians

夷則

いそく

(in China) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp)

四夷

しい

the surrounding barbarians (from a Chinese perspective)