Kanji Detail for 胤 - "descendent, issue, offspring"

胤

Jinmeiyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning

胤 means "descendent, issue, offspring."
1. To succeed - Descendants continuing their ancestors' legacy.
2. Lineage - Bloodline; ancestry; descendants.
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- Verified meaning: descendent, issue, offspring
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read いん, たね, つぐ, つずき)
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
Name readings of 胤

Given names 胤(つぐ) 胤(つづき)

Surnames 胤(いん) 胤(たね) 胤(つずき)
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

descendent; issue; offspring

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

heir, successor; progeny, posterity

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

descendant; heir; offspring; posterity; to inherit

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

heir, successor; progeny, posterity

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Heirs. The continuity of descendants. Such as saying 血胤 (bloodline).
Onyomi

in(イン)
Kunyomi

tane(たね)
Strokes

9 strokes
Radical

肉月 (niku・nikuzuki)
Related Keywords

to succeed lineage descendants heirs posterity bloodline offspring ancestry generation progeny succession legacy genealogy