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Yizhi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ123448082 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yizhi or Yi Zhi may refer to:

Places

Yizhi Township (simplified Chinese: 益智乡; traditional Chinese: 益智鄉; pinyin: Yìzhì-zhèn), Jinggu, Yi, Yunnan, China

People

Surname "Yi" Given name "Zhi"

Yi Zhi (♂, circa 17th-century BCE; pinyin: Yī Zhì), a Shang dynasty Chinese politician

Given name "Yizhi" and "Yi-Zhi"

Yan Yuan (Qing dynasty) (♂, 1635–1704, known as "Yizhi"), Qing dynasty Chinese philosopher

Yizhi (prince) (♂, 1827–1850; Chinese: 瑞敏郡王奕志; pinyin: Ruìmǐn-jùn Wáng Yìzhì; lit.

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“Yizhi” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yizhi, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1635, 1704, 1827, 1850—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yizhi, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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“Yizhi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yizhi, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q123448082. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1635, 1704, 1827 and 1850.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yizhi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.