# 后裔 (hòuyì)

In Mandarin Chinese, 后裔 (hòuyì) means “descendant; offspring”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: descendant; offspring
- Pinyin: hòuyì (hou4 yi4)
- Traditional: 後裔
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9

## Examples

- 他是一位古代诗人的后裔。
  Tā shì yī wèi gǔdài shīrén de hòuyì.
  He is a descendant of an ancient poet.

## Characters

- [后](https://hanziro.com/word/hou-after/) (hòu): after; behind
- 裔 (yì): descendants; of ... ancestry (as in 华裔 "of Chinese descent")

https://hanziro.com/word/hou-yi-descendant/

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