Chinese Character Wiki

裔

yì

progeny

Components
衣 sound component

衣  Sound component

yī, yì

  

clothes

冏 meaning component

冏  Meaning component

jiǒng

  

bright window

bright

Evolution

裔 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
裔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
裔 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
裔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

裔  

yì

progeny, descendants, posterity; descendants; frontier

Most common words with 裔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

裔

frontier

后裔

descendant

华裔

ethnic Chinese

亚裔

of Asian descent

族裔

ethnic group

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l[a][t]-s

yejH

yì

posterity; border


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.8534% of movies

2432nd most common character in movies

2842nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+88D4

Shuowen

“裔，衣裾也。从衣，聲。，古文裔。”


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