裔

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

• 㵝, 𨘆, 𧞥, 䕍, 𬰏

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1117, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34303
• Dae Jaweon: page 1583, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3091, character 1
• Unihan data for U+88D4

Historical forms of the character 裔
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *leds): semantic 衣 (“cloth”) + phonetic 㕯 (nè).

border

Schuessler (2007) compares 裔 (OC *leds) to Tibetan ལྡེབས (ldebs, “side, closure, fence”)

posterity, descendants

裔 (OC *lats < *laps, “posterity, descendants”) is possibly back-formation (voicing) from 世 (OC *lhats < *lhaps, “generation, epoch > world”), which is from iterative devoicing of 葉 (OC *leb, “leaf”) + *-s suffix, meaning successive foliages of a tree > generations (ibid.).

裔

1. descendant; posterity

   後裔／后裔  ―  hòuyì  ―  descendant; offspring

   日裔美國人／日裔美国人  ―  Rì yì měiguórén  ―  Japanese American

2. (literary) edge; brim; margin

   • 游於江潯海裔
     游于江浔海裔

     From: Huainanzi, 2^nd century BCE

     yóu yú jiāngxún hǎiyì

     Strolling along the riverbank and seashore

3. (literary) borderland; frontier; remote region

   • 渾敦、窮奇、檮杌、饕餮，投諸四裔，以禦螭魅。
     浑敦、穷奇、梼杌、饕餮，投诸四裔，以御螭魅。

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Húndūn, Qióngqí, Táowù, Tāotiè, tóu zhū sìyì, yǐ yù chīmèi.

     Chaos, oddity, block-stump, and glutton were all cast out to the four frontiers to ward off ill sprites and evil spirits.

4. (literary) people of the borderlands

   • 裔不謀夏，夷不亂華。
     裔不谋夏，夷不乱华。

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Yì bù móu xià, yí bù luàn huá.

     The borderers may not plot against the grand ("夏") domains; the aliens should not sow chaos among the flourishing ("華") peoples.

5. (literary) clothing's edge
6. a surname

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. descendant
2. border

• Go-on: えい (ei)^{←えい (ei, historical)←𛀁い (yei, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えい (ei)^{←えい (ei, historical)←𛀁い (yei, ancient)}
• Kun: すそ (suso, 裔)、すえ (sue, 裔)^{←すゑ (suwe, 裔, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 裔 (MC yejH).

• (Tokyo) えー (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

裔(えい) • (ei) ^{←えい (ei)?}

1. descendants; offspring

裔(えい) • (ei) ^{←えい (ei)?}

1. (literary) descendants

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裔 • (ye) (hangeul 예)

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