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 (first edition): volume 5, page 3091, character 1
• Unihan data for U+88D4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		裔
alternative forms		𧘉 𧘊

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
• Wu (Wiktionary): hhi (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: i4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jeoi⁶
    • Yale: yeuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêu⁶
    • Sinological 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/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhi (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɦi²³/

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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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jai6

• 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])
• IPA^(key): [e̞ː]

Affix

裔(えい) • (ei) 

1. descendants; offspring

Noun

裔(えい) • (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 an alternative spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entry is uncreated: こはな.)

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Korean

Hanja

裔 • (ye) (hangeul 예)

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