Kanji Detail for 裔 - "hem, descendant"

裔

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
裔 means "hem, descendant."
1. Hem - The bottom edge of a garment.
2. Descendant - The end; the edge; an heir; offspring.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

descendant; border

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

progeny, descendants, posterity

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2 yi4] "of Chinese descent"); (literary) distant lands; (literary) fringe; periphery

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

progeny, descendants

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

Distant border areas. Such as 四裔 (the four frontiers). | End. Descendants. 後裔 (posterity). Meaning distant descendants.
Onyomi

ei(えい)
Kunyomi

sue(すえ)

suso(すそ)
Strokes

13 strokes
Radical

衣衤 (koromo・koromohen)
Related Keywords
hem bottom edge garment descendant end heir offspring