Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
しゃく
Grade: S
kan’on
 Chinese nobility on Wikipedia

Etymology edit

Literary Chinese 五爵

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

()(しゃく) (goshakuごしやく (gosyaku)?

  1. the five ranks of (shaku, peerage) in feudal China, bestowed on 諸侯 (shokō, princes) (sons, brothers, nephews, male cousins, etc.) of the 皇帝 (kōtei, huangdi; emperor), later used as East Asian equivalents to European ranks
    Synonym: 五等爵
    Meronyms: (, duke), 公爵 (kōshaku, duke), (, marquis), 侯爵 (kōshaku, marquis), (shi, viscount), 子爵 (shishaku, viscount), (dan, baron), 男爵 (danshaku, baron), (haku, count), 伯爵 (hakushaku, count)

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

五爵 (ojak) (hangeul 오작)

  1. Hanja form? of 오작.