Chinese symbol for “descendants”
裔
yì
(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔 (Huá yì) "of Chinese descent"); (literary) distant lands; (literary) fringe; periphery
The closest CC-CEDICT match for descendants is 裔 (yì), defined as: (bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔 (Huá yì) "of Chinese descent"); (literary) distant lands; (literary) fringe; periphery.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “descendants”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 胄裔 | zhòu yì | descendants |
| 裔胄 | yì zhòu | descendants; offspring |
| 胄 | zhòu | helmet; descendants |
| 烟火 (煙火) | yān huǒ | smoke and fire; cooked food |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 裔.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 后裔 (後裔) | hòu yì | descendant |
| 族裔 | zú yì | ethnic group |
| 苗裔 | miáo yì | offspring; descendant |
| 少数族裔 (少數族裔) | shǎo shù zú yì | ethnic minority |
| 支与流裔 (支與流裔) | zhī yǔ liú yì | lit. branches and descendants; of a similar kind |
| 胄裔 | zhòu yì | descendants |
See also: Japanese symbol for “descendants”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.