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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

孫 (simplified 孙, Yale syun1)

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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)

Readings

• On: そん (son)
• Kun: まご (mago)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

孫 (simplified 孙, pinyin sūn (sun1), Sūn (Sun1), Wade-Giles sun¹, Sun¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

孫 (*suən, son)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

孫 (POJ sun)

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Suan

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Vietnamese

孫 (tôn, cháu, tun)