孕

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 乃 (“pregnant woman”) + 子 (“child”) – a pregnant woman (swollen breasts and stomach) with child. Compare 乃.

Han character

孕 (radical 39 子+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸弓木 (NSND), four-corner 1740₇, composition ⿱乃子)

1. be pregnant, pregnancy

References

• KangXi: page 277, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6938
• Dae Jaweon: page 545, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1009, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5B55

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Cantonese

Hanzi

孕 (Yale yan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

孕

Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: はらむ (haramu)

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Korean

Hanja

孕 (hangeul 잉, revised ing, McCune-Reischauer ing)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

孕 (pinyin yùn (yun4), Wade-Giles yün⁴)

Compounds

• 孕妇
• 孕期
• 孕育

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Vietnamese

Han character

孕 (dựng, dằng, dửng, rặng)