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See also:
U+5B6B, 孫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B6B

[U+5B6A]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5B6C]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𡤾

Glyph origin[edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (son) + (continue).

Wikipedia has articles on:
  • (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • (Cantonese)
  • sun (Southern Min)

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sju(w)-n (grandchild) (STEDT). Cognate with Bodo (India) sou (grandchild), Jingpho shu (grandchild).

Pronunciation 1[edit]


Note:
  • sng/suiⁿ - vernacular (surname);
  • sun - literary (all senses, including surname, except in Zhangzhou).
Note:
  • seng1 - surname;
  • sung1 - other senses.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /suən⁵⁵/
Harbin /suən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /suən²¹/
Jinan /suẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /suə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /suən²⁴/
Xi'an /suẽ²¹/
Xining /suə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /suŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /sũn³¹/
Ürümqi /suŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sən²¹³/
Chengdu /sən⁵⁵/
/suən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /suə̃⁵³/
Nanjing /sun³¹/
Hefei /sən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /suəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /sũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷen³³/
Wenzhou /sø³³/
Hui Shexian /sʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /suːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /sən³³/
Xiangtan /sən³³/
Gan Nanchang /sun⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sun²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /syn⁵³/
Nanning /ɬyn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /syn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sun⁵⁵/
/sŋ̍⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /souŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /suŋ³³/
/sɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sun²³/
/tun²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter swon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/suən/
Pan
Wuyun
/suon/
Shao
Rongfen
/suən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swən/
Li
Rong
/suən/
Wang
Li
/suən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/suən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
syun1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ swon ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ˁu[n]/
English 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 12178
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suːn/

Definitions[edit]

  1. grandchild (Classifier: c;  c)
  2. (literary or dialectal) grandson (Classifier: c;  c)
  3. (chiefly Min) fraternal nephew
  4. descendant
  5. a surname, listed third in the Baijiaxing
    中山中山  ―  Sūn Zhōngshān  ―  Sun Yat-sen (provisionally served as the first president of the Republic of China)
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • English: Sun, Suen
  • Tagalog: Suan (via Hokkien), Soon (via Hokkien)
Compounds[edit]

Pronunciation 2[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. Alternative form of (xùn)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. grandchild

Readings[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
むまご
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

(むまご) (mumago

  1. grandchild

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
うまご
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

/mumaɡo//umaɡo/.

Noun[edit]

(うまご) (umago

  1. grandchild

Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
まご
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

/umaɡo//maɡo/.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(まご) (mago

  1. grandchild

Etymology 4[edit]

Kanji in this term
そん
Grade: 4
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC swon).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(そん) (son

  1. (rare) descendant (usually of a certain generation)
  2. (archaic) lineage; pedigree
  3. (archaic) grandchild

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource


Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC swon). Recorded as Middle Korean (swon) (Yale: swon) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

(eumhun 손자 (sonja son))

  1. Hanja form? of (grandchild).
  2. Hanja form? of (a surname.).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Việt readings: tôn[1][2][3], tốn[1]
: Nôm readings: cháu[4], tuôn[3]

grandchild

References[edit]