夷

non-Han people, esp. to the East of China / barbarians / to wipe out / to exterminate / to tear down / to raze

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

Hawaii, US state

unimaginable / outrageous / freakish

to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster

Hawaii island

Hawaii, US state

macadamia nut

Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC

the three foreign religions (Nestorianism, Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism)

the three foreign religions (Nestorianism, Manicheanism and Zoroastrianism)

to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)

to deteriorate / to decline / to slump / also written 陵夷