雙

See also 双

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 雔 (“two birds”) + 又 (“hand”)

Represents two birds (隹) in someone's right hand (又).

Han character

雙 (radical 172 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE), four-corner 2040₇)

1. set of two, pair, couple
2. both

References

• KangXi: page 1368, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42116
• Dae Jaweon: page 1873, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4104, character 10
• Unihan data for U+96D9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

雙 (simplified 双, jyutping soeng1, Yale seung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

雙

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: ふた (futa), ふたつ (futatsu), ならぶ (narabu)

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Korean

Hanja

雙 (hangeul 쌍, revised ssang, McCune-Reischauer ssang, Yale ssang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

雙 (simplified 双, pinyin shuāng (shuang1), Wade-Giles shuang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雙 (song, rông, suông)