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胤

胤: descendant

descendant; offspring
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Readings

On
イン
Kun
たね

Literary and historical. Read いん in 落胤, 後胤, 皇胤; the kun reading たね is mainly in old-style given names.

Key words

落胤らくいんillegitimate child of a noble
後胤こういんdescendant
皇胤こういんimperial descendant
胤たねseed; offspring

Example sentences

There is a legend that this warlord was the shogun's illegitimate son.

As a descendant of an old noble family, he protects the ancestral mansion.

In the Heian period, imperial descendants sometimes received a surname and became subjects.

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