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U+56DD, 囝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56DD

[U+56DC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+56DE]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 31, +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 田弓木 (WND), four-corner 60407, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 216, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4688
  • Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 713, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+56DD

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Ideogram (指事) : + (child; son). Compare .

Etymology 1

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Min dialectal word for “son; child”. Substrate borrowing, cognate with Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun (child, son) (Vietnamese con, Khmer កូន (koun)) (Schuessler, 2007). Likely related to (OC *kuːn, “descendants”) (ibid.).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • gin2 - literary;
  • zai2 - vernacular.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6118
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kranʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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(Min)

  1. son
  2. child
  3. baby, infant
  4. Diminutive suffix attached to nouns, equivalent to Mandarin ().
  5. Diminutive suffix attached to classifiers.
Synonyms
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Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“child; daughter; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Etymology 3

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Coined by Chinese empress regnant Wu Zetian. One of the Chinese characters of Empress Wu.

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“moon; moon-shaped; round like a moon; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. baby; infant

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): けん (ken)げん (gen)がち (gachi)
  • Kun: こども (kodomo, )

Korean

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Hanja

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(geon) (hangeul , revised geon, McCune–Reischauer kŏn)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: cưởng, kiển, niên

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References

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