孫

See also: 孙

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 子 (“son”) + 系 (“continue”)

Han character

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

1. grandchild, descendent
2. a surname, used third on the Baijiaxing

Descendants

• 遜, 愻, 蓀

References

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

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Chinese

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trad.		孫
simp.		孙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sūn, Sūn (sun¹, Sun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄣ, ㄙㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun¹
• Min Nan (POJ): sun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: sun¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suen
    • IPA ^(key): /su̯ən⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: Sūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: sun¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Suen
    • IPA ^(key): /su̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sun
    • Tâi-lô: sun
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (孫, reconstructed)
Character (孫), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 魂 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 思渾切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/suən/	/suən/	/suən/	/suon/	/swən/	/suən/	/suən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (孫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
孫								sūn								‹ swon ›								/*[s]ˤu[n]/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
孫					12178					孫					文					2					孫					/*suːn/

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Suan

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Japanese

Noun

孫 (hiragana むまご, romaji mumago)

1. a grandchild

Etymology 1

mumago → umago.

Noun

孫 (hiragana うまご, romaji umago)

1. a grandchild

Etymology 2

umago → mago.

Noun

孫 (hiragana まご, romaji mago)

1. a grandchild

Kanji

孫

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そん (son)
• Kun: まご (mago)

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Korean

Hanja

孫 (son) (hangeul 손, revised son, McCune-Reischauer son)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: tôn, cháu, tun

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