yì

裔 (yì) is a Chinese word meaning “(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2 yi4] "of Chinese descent"); (literary) distant lands”.

Meanings

  1. 1(bound form) descendants
  2. 2(bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2 yi4] "of Chinese descent")
  3. 3(literary) distant lands
  4. 4(literary) fringe; periphery

Related words

后裔descendant亚裔of Asian descent华裔ethnic Chinese日裔of Japanese descent少数族裔ethnic minority支与流裔lit. branches and descendants族裔ethnic group胄裔descendants苗裔offspring裔胄descendants边裔remote area巫裔(Malaysia, Singapore) ethnic Malays

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