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孕

孕

孕 U+5B55, 孕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B55
← 孔
[U+5B54] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 孖 →
[U+5B56]

Translingual

Han character

孕 (radical 39 子+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸弓木 (NSND), four-corner 17407, composition ⿱乃子)

References

  • KangXi: page 277, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6938
  • Dae Jaweon: page 545, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1009, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5B55

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 孕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 孕
Oracle bone script Large seal script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 乃 ‎(“pregnant woman”) + 子 ‎(“child”) – a pregnant woman (swollen breasts and stomach) with child. Compare 乃.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 孕
Mandarin Beijing /yn⁵¹/
Harbin /yn⁵³/
Tianjin /yn⁵³/
Jinan /yẽ²¹/
Qingdao /yə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /yn³¹²/
Xi'an /iẽ⁴⁴/
Xining /yə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /yŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /yñ¹³/
Ürümqi /yŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /yn³⁵/
Chengdu /zuən¹³/
Guiyang /zuen²¹³/
Kunming /ĩ²¹²/
Nanjing /yn⁴⁴/
Hefei /yn⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /yəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /iŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦyŋ²³/
/ɦioŋ²³/
Suzhou /ɦyən³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦin¹³/
Wenzhou /jaŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /yʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /yan⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /yn⁵⁵/
/yn¹¹/
Xiangtan /yn⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /yn²¹/
Hakka Meixian
Taoyuan /in³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐn²²/
Nanning /yn²²/
Hong Kong /jɐn²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iŋ²²/
/in²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ɛiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /zeŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kua³³/
Rime
Character 孕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以證切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jɨŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ieŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiŋH/
Li
Rong		 /iəŋH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭəŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯əŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 孕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yùn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yingH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l[i]ŋ-s/
English pregnant

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 孕
Reading # 1/1
No. 16475
Phonetic
component		 孕
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 孕
Old
Chinese		 /*lɯŋs/

Definitions

孕

  1. to be pregnant
  2. pregnancy
  3. foetus

Compounds

  • 不孕 (bùyùn)
  • 不孕性
  • 不孕症
  • 不孕真菌
  • 人工受孕 (réngōng shòuyùn)
  • 包孕
  • 包孕句
  • 受孕 (shòuyùn)

Japanese

Kanji

孕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

孕 • ‎(ing) (hangeul 잉, revised ing, McCune-Reischauer ing)

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Vietnamese

Han character

孕 (dựng, dằng, dửng, rặng)

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