親

See also 亲

Translingual

simplified	亲
traditional	親

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 亲 + semantic 見 (“see”) – someone you see every day.

Han character

親 (radical 147 見+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜木月山山 (YDBUU), four-corner 0691₀, composition ⿰亲見)

1. relatives, parents
2. intimate

References

• KangXi: page 1136, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34918
• Dae Jaweon: page 1602, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3671, character 12
• Unihan data for U+89AA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

親 (simplified 亲, Yale chan1)

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Japanese

Noun

親 (hiragana おや, romaji oya)

1. a mother; a father; a parent
2. the founder
3. the dealer; the banker

Kanji

親 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: したしい (shitashii), おや (oya), みずから (mizukara)

Compounds

親方 親子 親父 親潮 親指 親愛 親戚 親切 親善

親等 親日 親王 親睦 親身 親密 親友 親類 両親

Phrase

• 親の心子知らず
• 親の光は七光

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Korean

Hanja

親 (hangeul 친, revised chin, McCune-Reischauer ch'in, Yale chin)

Compounds

• 親家: 친가
• 親監: 친감
• 親交: 친교
• 親舊: 친구
• 親密感: 친밀감
• 親密하다: 친밀하다
• 親切: 친절
• 親하다: 친하다

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Mandarin

Hanzi

親 (simplified 亲, pinyin qīn (qin1), Wade-Giles ch'in¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

親 (thân)