裔
yì
#2,836 most
frequent character
descendants, frontier
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
裔 has 衣 clothing as its meaning part and 冏 as an empty part. 冏 once showed the outer edge or fringe of a garment. The first meaning was that clothing edge. It grew to a state’s frontier, to people on the frontier, and then to descendants.
Drawn as: clothing edge
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