| 演义 | yǎn yì | to dramatize historical events; novel or play on historical theme |
| 道义 | dào yì | morality; righteousness and justice |
| 义勇军 | yì yǒng jūn | volunteer army |
| 狭义 | xiá yì | narrow sense; specialization; special |
| 犹太复国主义 | yóu tài fù guó zhǔ yì | Zionism |
| 功利主义 | gōng lì zhǔ yì | utilitarianism |
| 形式主义 | xíng shì zhǔ yì | Formalism (art) |
| 历史意义 | lì shǐ yì yì | historic significance |
| 民生主义 | mín shēng zhǔ yì | principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade) |
| 自由主义 | zì yóu zhǔ yì | liberalism |
| 大义 | dà yì | righteousness; virtuous cause; a woman's marriage; main points of a piece of writing |
| 平均主义 | píng jūn zhǔ yì | egalitarianism |
| 法西斯主义 | fǎ xī sī zhǔ yì | fascism |
| 社会主义者 | shè huì zhǔ yì zhě | socialist |
| 旧民主主义革命 | jiù mín zhǔ zhǔ yì gé mìng | old democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) |
| 教义 | jiào yì | creed; doctrine; teachings |
| 义愤 | yì fèn | righteous indignation; moral indignation |
| 自然主义 | zì rán zhǔ yì | naturalism (philosophy) |
| 利己主义 | lì jǐ zhǔ yì | egoist |
| 义理 | yì lǐ | doctrine (esp. religious); argumentation (in a speech or essay) |
| 涵义 | hán yì | content; meaning; connotation; implication |
| 仁义 | rén yì | benevolence and righteousness |
| 仁义 | rén yi | affable and even-tempered |
| 虚无主义 | xū wú zhǔ yì | nihilism |
| 就义 | jiù yì | to be killed for a righteous cause; to die a martyr |
| 沙文主义 | shā wén zhǔ yì | chauvinism |
| 讲义 | jiǎng yì | teaching materials |
| 天经地义 | tiān jīng dì yì | lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper; right and unalterable; a matter of course |
| 新古典主义 | xīn gǔ diǎn zhǔ yì | neoclassicism |
| 三国演义 | Sān guó Yǎn yì | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature; a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, consistently portraying Liu Bei's Shu Han 劉備, 刘备, 蜀汉 as virtuous heroes and Cao Cao's Wei 曹操, 魏 as tyrannical villains |
| 分裂主义 | fēn liè zhǔ yì | separatism |
| 国家社会主义 | guó jiā shè huì zhǔ yì | national socialism; Nazism |
| 背信弃义 | bèi xìn qì yì | breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray; treachery; perfidy |
| 义勇 | yì yǒng | courageous; righteous and courageous |
| 重商主义 | zhòng shāng zhǔ yì | mercantilism |
| 遵义 | Zūn yì | Zun'yi prefecture level city in Guizhou 贵州 |
| 三侠五义 | Sān xiá wǔ yì | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 |
| 民权主义 | mín quán zhǔ yì | democracy; civil liberties; principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state) |
| 信义 | xìn yì | good faith; honor; trust and justice; Xinyi or Hsinyi district of Taipei City 台北市, Taiwan; Xinyi or Hsini district of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan; Xinyi or Hsini township in Nantou county 南投县, central Taiwan |
| 遵义会议 | Zūn yì huì yì | Zunyi conference of January 1935 before the Long March |
| 宗派主义 | zōng pài zhǔ yì | sectarianism |
| 客观唯心主义 | kè guān wéi xīn zhǔ yì | objective idealism (in Hegel's philosophy) |
| 冒险主义 | mào xiǎn zhǔ yì | adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s) |
| 疑义 | yí yì | a doubtful point |
| 顾名思义 | gù míng sī yì | as the name implies |
| 义气 | yì qì | spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice; code of brotherhood; also pr. [yi4 qi5] |
| 侠义 | xiá yì | chivalrous; chivalry; knight-errantry |
| 断章取义 | duàn zhāng qǔ yì | lit. to take meaning from cut segment (idiom); to interpret out of context; to focus attention on one phrase without regard to the meaning of the whole piece |
| 要义 | yào yì | the essentials |
| 尽义务 | jìn yì wù | to fulfil one's duty; to work without asking for reward |
