Chen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Bad (dǎi) Character: Yi Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 583, Entry 14 Collection of Characters Supplement (Zihui bu): Pronounced yin. Huainan Masters (Huainanzi), Chapter on Terrain Instruction (Dixing xun): Outside the nine provinces are the eight yi, and outside the eight yi are the eight hung. Commentary: Yi means distant.