裔

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

trad.		裔
simp. #		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／形声, OC *leds) : semantic 衣 (“cloth”) + phonetic 㕯 ().

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jeoi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ē / ī / è / ì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Yale: yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jeoi⁶
    • Yale: yeuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɵy̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (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: yejH

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
Baxter	yejH
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

(deprecated template usage) 裔

1. progeny, descendants, posterity
2. a surname

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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 yejH).

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 the following entry: こはな

(The following entry is uncreated: こはな.)

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Korean

Hanja

裔 • (ye) (hangeul 예)

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