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后裔

hòu yì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 後裔

后裔 (hòu yì) means "descendant". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 后裔 means

1. descendant

The characters in 后裔

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands

Example sentences

• 有些人相信英国皇室是大卫王的后裔。
  Yǒuxiērén xiāngxìn Yīngguó huángshì shì Dàwèi Wáng de hòuyì.
  Some believe that the British Royal Family is directly descended from the line of King David.
• 一只赛勒诺栖于岩石之上，你看，/ 那阴郁的女先知就这样嘎声道出她的末日预言。/「还有战争，拉俄墨冬两度背信的后裔！/ 你们带来的是战争，还偷杀了我们的牛群？/ 而你们还要将无辜的哈尔庇厄驱逐，/ 赶出她们古老、世代相传的领地？」
  One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"

Sounds the same

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

• 厚谊generous friendship
• 后羿Houyi, mythological Chinese archer whose wife was Chang'e

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