裔

裔

裔 U+88D4, 裔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88D4 ← 裓 [U+88D3] CJK Unified Ideographs 裕 → [U+88D5]

Translingual

Han character

裔 (radical 145, 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜女月金口 (YVBCR), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿱衣冏)

References

• KangXi: page 1117, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34303
• Dae Jaweon: page 1583, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3091, character 1
• Unihan data for U+88D4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		裔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 裔
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *leds) : semantic 衣 (“cloth”) + phonetic 㕯.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jeoi⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ē / ī / è / ì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jeoi⁶
    • Yale: yeuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jɵy̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ē
    • Tâi-lô: ē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: e
    • IPA (Xiamen): /e²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /e⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ī
    • Tâi-lô: ī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: i
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: è
    • Tâi-lô: è
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ex
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /e²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /e¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ì
    • Tâi-lô: ì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ix
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /i²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /jiᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	裔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘制切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/jæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiajH/
Li Rong	/iɛiH/
Wang Li	/jĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l[a][t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*leds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	裔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ yejH ›
Old Chinese	/*l[a][t]-s/
English	posterity; border
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	裔
Reading #	1/1
No.	15165
Phonetic component	裔
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	曵
Old Chinese	/*leds/

Definitions

裔

1. progeny, descendants, posterity
2. A surname​.

Compounds

亞裔／亚裔 (yàyì) 八裔 四裔 (sìyì) 容裔 (róngyì) 後裔／后裔 (hòuyì) 德垂後裔／德垂后裔 族裔 (zúyì) 昆裔 歐裔／欧裔 (ōuyì) 水裔

江潯海裔／江浔海裔 派裔 涌裔 窮裔／穷裔 美裔 (měiyì) 胄裔 苗裔 (miáoyì) 荒裔 華裔／华裔 (huáyì) 裔土

裔夷 裔孫／裔孙 (yìsūn) 裔末 裔民 裔胄 裔裔 遙裔／遥裔 遠裔／远裔 邊裔／边裔 非裔 (fēiyì)

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Japanese

Kanji

裔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. descendant
2. border

Readings

• Go-on: えい (ei)
• Kan-on: えい (ei)
• Kun: すそ (suso, 裔); すえ (sue, 裔)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
裔
えい Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 裔 (MC jiᴇi^H).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) え​ー [éꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [e̞ː]

Affix

裔 (hiragana えい, rōmaji ei)

1. descendants; offspring

Noun

裔 (hiragana えい, rōmaji ei)

1. (literary) descendants

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
裔
こはな Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 裔 – see こはな. (This term, 裔, is a kanji spelling of こはな.)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

裔 • (ye) (hangeul 예)

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