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裔

yì

HSK 5 Character

What 裔 means

1. bound formdescendants
2. bound formof ... ancestry (as in {华裔|Huá yì} "of Chinese descent")
3. literarydistant lands
4. literaryfringe; periphery

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.
• 汉满蒙回藏（以及中国的其他少数族裔们）一家亲。
  Hàn mǎn mēng huí cáng （ yǐjí Zhōngguó de qítā shǎoshù zúyì men ） yījiā qīn.
  Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui and Tibetan people (as well as other minority groups in China) are kins in one family.
• 百分之二十六的美籍犹太裔人群难以支付生活费用；其中包括百分之五十五的年收入低于五万美元的人群。
  26 percent of American Jews have difficulty paying bills; this includes 55 percent of those making under $50,000 per year.
• 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.
• 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?"

Words starting with 裔

• 裔胄yì zhòudescendants; offspring

Words containing 裔

• 华裔Huá yìethnic Chinese; non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry
• 后裔hòu yìdescendant
• 亚裔Yà yìof Asian descent
• 族裔zú yìethnic group
• 日裔Rì yìof Japanese descent
• 边裔biān yìremote area; distant marches
• 非裔Fēi yìof African descent
• 少数族裔shǎo shù zú yìethnic minority
• 支与流裔zhī yǔ liú yìlit. branches and descendants; of a similar kind; related
• 苗裔miáo yìoffspring; descendant; progeny
• 巫裔Wū yì(Malaysia, Singapore) ethnic Malays
• 胄裔zhòu yìdescendants

Characters that look like 裔

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 窗chuāngwindow
• 蓝lánblue; indigo plant
• 酱jiàngthick paste of fermented soybean; marinated in soy paste; paste
• 蔷qiángused in 蔷薇
• 蛰zhéto hibernate
• 翕xīto open and close (the mouth etc); friendly; compliant

Sounds the same

Read yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 意(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 议to comment on; to discuss; to suggest
• 易easy; amiable; to change
• 亿100 million
• 亦also
• 艺skill; art
• 译to translate; to interpret
• 忆to recollect; to remember; memory
• 谊friendship; also pr. yí
• 义justice; righteousness; meaning
• 益benefit; profit; advantage
• 异different; other; hetero-