| 烟火 | yān huǒ | smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants / posterity |   |
| 裔 |  yì | (bound form) descendants / (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2yi4] "of Chinese descent") / (literary) distant lands / (literary) fringe / periphery | |
| 胄 | zhòu | helmet / descendants | |
| 胄裔 | zhòu yì | descendants | |
| 裔胄 | yì zhòu | descendants / offspring | |
| 炎黄子孙 | Yán Huáng zǐ sūn | descendants of the Fiery Emperor and the Yellow Emperor (i.e. Han Chinese people) | |
| 太子党 | tài zǐ dǎng | princelings, descendants of senior communist officials (PRC) | |
| 京族 | Jīng zú | Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi / Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam | |
| 无后 | wú hòu | (literary) to have no descendants / to have no son to continue one's lineage | |
| 衍圣公 | Yǎn shèng gōng | hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants | |
| 宗圣侯 | Zōng shèng hóu | hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants | |
| 宗圣公 | Zōng Shèng gōng | hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants | |
| 支与流裔 | zhī yǔ liú yì | lit. branches and descendants / of a similar kind / related | |
| 胄裔繁衍 | zhòu yì fán yǎn | Descendants are great in numbers. (idiom) | |
| 华胄 | huá zhòu | (literary) Han people / descendants of nobles | |
| 衍圣公府 | Yǎn shèng gōng fǔ | the official residence of Confucius' descendants at Qufu 曲阜, Shandong | |
| 贵胄 | guì zhòu | descendants of feudal aristocrats | |
| 遐胄 | xiá zhòu | distant descendants | |
| 远胄 | yuǎn zhòu | distant descendants | |
| 龙的传人 | lóng de chuán rén | Descendants of the Dragon (i.e. Han Chinese) | |
| 本省人 | běn shěng rén | people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants | |
| 孤魂野鬼 | gū hún yě guǐ | wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on | |
