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甥

甥

Translingual

Han character

甥 (radical 100 生+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹一田大尸 (HMWKS), four-corner 26127, composition ⿰生男)

  1. sister's child, sororal niece or nephew

References

  • KangXi: page 755, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21689
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1165, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2578, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7525

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 甥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (生) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
猜 *sʰlɯː
輤 *sʰleːns
綪 *sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ
倩 *sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs
棈 *sʰleːns
蒨 *sʰeːns
篟 *sʰeːns
生 *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs
牲 *sreŋ
笙 *sreŋ
甥 *sreŋ
鉎 *sreŋ, *sleːŋ
珄 *sreŋ
鼪 *sreŋ, *sreŋs
猩 *sreŋ, *seːŋ
狌 *sreŋ
眚 *sreŋʔ
貹 *sreŋs
崝 *zreːŋ
精 *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs
菁 *ʔsleŋ
鶄 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
蜻 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
鼱 *ʔsleŋ
婧 *ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ
睛 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ
箐 *ʔsleŋ
聙 *ʔsleŋ
旌 *ʔsleŋ
清 *sʰleŋ
圊 *sʰleŋ
請 *sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ
凊 *sʰleŋs
䝼 *zleŋs, *zleŋ
靚 *zleŋs
情 *zleŋ
晴 *zleŋ
夝 *zleŋ
靜 *zleŋʔ
靖 *zleŋʔ
睲 *seŋʔ, *seːŋs
惺 *seŋʔ, *seːŋ
性 *sleŋs
姓 *sleŋs
靗 *l̥ʰeŋs
鯖 *ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ
青 *sʰleːŋ
靘 *sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs
掅 *sʰleːŋs
胜 *sleːŋ
曐 *sleːŋ
星 *sleːŋ
鮏 *sleːŋ
腥 *seːŋ, *seːŋs
鯹 *seːŋ
醒 *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs
篂 *seːŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 甥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 庚 (109)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 所庚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃˠæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃᵚaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂaɨjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʃɐŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ʃɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 甥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sræng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.reŋ/
English SiSo or SiDa; DaHu

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 甥
Reading # 1/1
No. 11315
Phonetic
component		 生
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 生
Old
Chinese		 /*sreŋ/

Definitions

甥

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Compounds

  • 甥女 (shēngnǚ)
  • 甥館／甥馆
  • 舅甥
  • 表甥

References

Japanese

Kanji

甥

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Pronunciation

Noun

甥 ‎(hiragana おい, romaji oi)

  1. nephew

Antonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  2. ↑ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō

Korean

Hanja

甥 • ‎(saeng)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 생 (revised: saeng, McCune-Reischauer: saeng, Yale: sayng)
  • Name (hangeul): 생질()
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