noun #6,033

Meanings

  1. 1 descendant
  2. 2 posterity
  3. 3 ethnic heritage

Examples

HSK 4
Tā shì huáyì Měiguórén.
He is a Chinese American.
HSK 4
Hěnduō Fēizhōuyì yùndòngyuán cānjiā le bǐsài.
Many athletes of African descent participated in the competition.

Tips

usage
is commonly used as a suffix meaning 'of ... descent/heritage': 华裔 (Chinese descent), 日裔 (Japanese descent), 非裔 (African descent).

Components

radical
clothing; garment (radical)
Outer wrapper - a robe with collar above and skirts below, split here so its top tucks above and its bottom tucks under the inner element. originally meant 'hem of a garment', and from there extended to 'descendants' - the people who hang from the family line like cloth from the hem. Indexing radical for the whole character.
semantic
jiǒng
bright window; opening (semantic)
Inner - a frame with a small mark inside, originally a 'bright window' or aperture. Sits inside the open robe of and represents the descendants threading down through the lineage like light through a window. Semantic anchor for the 'descendant' sense; phonetic role is weak (jiǒng → yì).

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