相

See also 租

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 木 + 目.

Han character

相 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木月山 (DBU), four-corner 4690₀)

1. mutual, reciprocal, each other

Derived characters

• 想 箱 霜

References

• KangXi: page 800, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23151
• Dae Jaweon: page 1216, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2470, character 13
• Unihan data for U+76F8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

相 (Yale seung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

相 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō), そう (sō)
• Kun: あい (ai), みる (miru), たすける (tasukeru)

Compounds

• 相撲 (すもう, sumō)
• 相談　(そうだん), consultation)
• 相手 (あいて), companion, partner, opponent)

Suffix

相 (hiragana しょう, romaji -shō)

1. minister of state

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Korean

Hanja

相 (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

相 (pinyin xiāng (xiang1), xiàng (xiang4), Wade-Giles hsiang¹, hsiang⁴)

Compounds

• 相反
• 相信
• 照相机

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Vietnamese

Han character

相 (tương, tướng, rương)