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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 后裔

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
后裔 hòu yì - descendant

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 8 11,949 21,012 28,549

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
hòu- surname Hou
hòu- empress
- queen
- (archaic) monarch
- ruler
hòu- back
- behind
- rear
- afterwards
- after
- later
- post-
- (bound form) descendants
- (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2yi4] "of Chinese descent")
- (literary) distant lands
- (literary) fringe; periphery

Other Words Containing 后裔

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
后裔 - 8 11,949 21,012 28,549