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The character 裔 structurally combines the semantic component 衣, meaning clothing, with the phonetic component 冏, and it originally denoted the hem or lower border of a garment. This concrete meaning gradually broadened to refer to geographical borders or distant regions, leveraging the conceptual link between the edge of cloth and the periphery of a territory. Subsequently, the term acquired its abstract sense of descendants or offspring, metaphorically extending from the idea of a lineage stretching outward like a garment's fringe, which became its dominant usage in modern Chinese.
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我是华裔美国人。
很多华裔学习中文。
华裔儿童常常学习汉语。
他是孔子的后裔。
这位华裔科学家获得了诺贝尔奖。
许多华裔回到中国寻找他们的根源。
当华裔青少年访问中国时，他们感到非常亲切。
尽管是华裔，但他从未去过中国，因此他对中国文化充满好奇。