See also:
U+5B6B, 孫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B6B

[U+5B6A]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5B6C]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 39, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓木竹女火 (NDHVF), four-corner 12493, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 279, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6987
  • Dae Jaweon: page 548, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1016, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5B6B

Chinese

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trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𡤾

Glyph origin

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Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (son) + (continue).

 
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  • (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • (Cantonese)
  • sun (Southern Min)

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sju(w)-n (grandchild) (STEDT). Cognate with Bodo (India) sou (grandchild), Jingpho shu (grandchild).

Pronunciation 1

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Note:
  • seng1 - vernacular;
  • song1/suong1 - literary (incl. surname).
Note:
  • sng/suiⁿ - vernacular (surname);
  • sun - literary (all senses, including surname, except in Zhangzhou).
Note:
  • seng1 - surname;
  • sung1 - other senses.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /suən⁵⁵/
Harbin /suən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /suən²¹/
Jinan /suẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /suə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /suən²⁴/
Xi'an /suẽ²¹/
Xining /suə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /suŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /sũn³¹/
Ürümqi /suŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sən²¹³/
Chengdu /sən⁵⁵/
/suən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /suə̃⁵³/
Nanjing /sun³¹/
Hefei /sən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /suəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /sũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷen³³/
Wenzhou /sø³³/
Hui Shexian /sʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /suːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /sən³³/
Xiangtan /sən³³/
Gan Nanchang /sun⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sun²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /syn⁵³/
Nanning /ɬyn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /syn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sun⁵⁵/
/sŋ̍⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /souŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /suŋ³³/
/sɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sun²³/
/tun²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter swon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/suən/
Pan
Wuyun
/suon/
Shao
Rongfen
/suən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swən/
Li
Rong
/suən/
Wang
Li
/suən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/suən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
syun1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ swon ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ˁu[n]/
English grandchild; descendant

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12178
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suːn/

Definitions

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  1. grandchild (Classifier: c;  c)
  2. (literary or dialectal) grandson (Classifier: c;  c)
  3. (chiefly Min) fraternal nephew
  4. descendant
  5. a surname, listed third in the Baijiaxing
    中山中山  ―  Sūn Zhōngshān  ―  Sun Yat-sen (provisionally served as the first president of the Republic of China)
  6. A respelling of the English patronymic son
      ―  Lǔbīn Sūn  ―  Robinson
Synonyms
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Descendants
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  • English: Sun, Suen, Soon
  • Tagalog: Suan (via Hokkien), Soon (via Hokkien)
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2

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Definitions

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  1. (literary) Alternative form of (xùn)

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. grandchild

Readings

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  • Go-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
  • Kun: まご (mago, , Jōyō)
  • Nanori: さね (sane)ただ (tada)ひこ (hiko)ひろ (hiro)

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
むまご
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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(むまご) (mumago

  1. grandchild

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
うまご
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

/mumaɡo//umaɡo/.

Noun

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(うまご) (umago

  1. grandchild

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
まご
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

/umaɡo//maɡo/.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(まご) (mago

  1. grandchild
Derived terms
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Etymology 4

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Kanji in this term
そん
Grade: 4
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC swon).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(そん) (son

  1. (rare) descendant (usually of a certain generation)
  2. (archaic) lineage; pedigree
  3. (archaic) grandchild

Compounds

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Korean

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource


Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC swon). Recorded as Middle Korean (swon) (Yale: swon) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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(eumhun 손자 (sonja son))

  1. hanja form? of (grandchild)
  2. hanja form? of (a surname.)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Việt readings: tôn[1][2][3], tốn[1]
: Nôm readings: cháu[4], tuôn[3]

grandchild

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