Variant of 夷

𬻒 is a nonstandard variant of 夷 (Mandarin yí), whose senses include “eastern peoples,” “subdue,” and “level.” The word appears in Shang oracle-bone records as a label for eastern groups; later Chinese writing sometimes widened it to outsiders generally, then narrowed it again to an eastern category such as 東夷. That group-label sense reflects the writers’ viewpoint, so using it for living people can sound dismissive.