Yi (surname 易)

For the Chinese or Korean surname Yī 伊, see Yi (surname 伊).
Yi
Yi surname in regular script
PronunciationYì (Pinyin)
E̍k, Ī (Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
LanguageChinese
Origin
LanguageOld Chinese
Other names
Variant formsYi, Yih (Mandarin)
Yick or Yik (Cantonese)
Ek, Yee (Hokkien)

Yi (易), also romanized as Yee, Yick, Yik, Jek is a Chinese surname. A 2013 study found that it was the 114th most-common name in mainland China, shared by 1.75 million people, or 0.130% of the population, with the largest province being Hunan.

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