赤子

Chinese

		red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (赤子)		赤	子
Literally: “red child”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chìzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˋ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cek³ zi²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiak-chír / chhek-chú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chìzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˋ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chìhzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih⁴-tzŭ³
    • Yale: chr̀-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyhtzyy
    • Palladius: чицзы (čiczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cek³ zi²
    • Yale: chek jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsek⁸ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cég³ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 尺子 赤子

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiak-chír
    • Tâi-lô: tshiak-tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhek-chú
    • Tâi-lô: tshik-tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhekzuo
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁵³/

Noun

赤子

1. newborn baby; neonate

   • 若保赤子，惟民其康乂。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

     Ruò bǎo chìzǐ, wéi mín qí kāngyì. [Pinyin]

     (Deal with them) as if you were protecting your own infants, and the people will be tranquil and orderly.

2. (figurative) person cherishing true love for his native land; the people (of a country)

Synonyms

• (newborn baby): 孲／𰌦 (yā); (Hokkien) 赤囝; (Wu) 𤘅孲／𤘅𰌦

Derived terms

• 潢池赤子
• 赤子之心 (chìzǐzhīxīn)

 

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
赤	子
あか Grade: 1	こ > ご Grade: 1
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 赤子 – see the following entry.

【あかご】 [noun] baby

(This term, 赤子, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
赤	子
せき Grade: 1	し Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せ​きし [séꜜkìshì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [se̞kʲiɕi]

Noun

赤(せき)子(し) • (sekishi) ^{←せきし (sekisi)?}

1. Synonym of あかご (akago, “baby”)
2. (literary) emperor's citizens
   • 玉音放送

     億兆ノ赤子ヲ保シ

     to save the millions of our subjects