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裔

裔

Translingual

Han character

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

progeny, descendants, posterity
a surname

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		裔

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jeoi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: yì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
  - Wade-Giles: i⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
  - IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jeoi⁶
  - Yale: yeuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: joey⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /jɵy̯²²/

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	/jiᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/jæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaj^H/
Li Rong	/iɛi^H/
Wang Li	/jĭɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛi^H/
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	‹ yej^H ›
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

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Compounds

後裔／后裔 (hòuyì)
華裔／华裔 (huáyì)
苗裔 (miáoyì)
四裔 (sìyì)

Japanese

Kanji

裔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: えい (ei)

Kun: すそ (suso), すえ (sue)

Korean

Hanja

裔 • ‎(ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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