Original meaning: the edges of clothing
Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 㕯 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "the edges of clothing". The meaning later shifted to "remote", "descendants of a distant era" and "descendants" in general.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | yejH | l[a][t]-s | posterity; border |
說文解字
《說文》：“裔，衣裾也。从衣，聲。，古文裔。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)