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亚裔

Yà yì

2-character word Traditional 亞裔

What 亚裔 means

1. of Asian descent

The characters in 亚裔

• 亚yàsecond; next to; inferior
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands

Example sentences

• 这是个由不分老少、贫富、民主党、共和党；黑人、白人、拉丁裔、亚裔、美洲原住民；同性恋、异性恋人；肢障与四体健全者，大家共同诉说的答案。美国民众向全世界发出讯息，我们绝非一盘散沙，也不是由红州、蓝州拼凑而成的集合体。
  Zhè shì gè yóu bù fēn lǎoshào, pínfù, Mínzhǔdǎng, Gònghédǎng; hēirén, báirén, lādīng yì, Yàyì, Měizhōu yuánzhùmín; tóngxìngliàn, yìxìngliàn rén; zhī zhàng yǔ sìtǐ jiànquán zhě, dàjiā gòngtóng sùshuō de dá'àn. Měiguó mínzhòng xiàng quánshìjiè fāchū xùnxī, wǒmen juéfēi yīpánsǎnshā, yě bù shì yóu hóng zhōu, lán zhōu pīncòu ér chéng de jíhétǐ.
  It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

Sounds the same

Read Yà yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 讶异to be surprised; to be astonished