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社會

社會

See also: 社会

Chinese

society; group
 
to meet; to gather; group; to assemble; association; be able to; be likely to; to balance an account; accounting
trad. (社會) 社 會
simp. (社会) 社 会
anagram 會社／会社

Noun

社會

  1. society
    理想社會 / 理想社会  ―  lǐxiǎng shèhuì  ―  ideal society
    社會秩序 / 社会秩序  ―  shèhuì zhìxù  ―  social order
    社會名人 / 社会名人  ―  shèhuì míngrén  ―  public figure
    回饋社會 / 回馈社会  ―  huíkuì shèhuì  ―  to give back to society
    社會經濟發展 / 社会经济发展  ―  shèhuì jīngjì fāzhǎn  ―  socio-economic development
  2. class; the world of a certain group of people

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (社會):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
社 會
しゃ
Grade: 2 		かい
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Noun

社會 ‎(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 社会, hiragana しゃかい, romaji shakai)

  1. Kyūjitai spelling of 社会.

Korean

Hanja in this term
社 會

Noun

社會 • ‎(sahoe) ‎(hangeul 사회)

  1. Hanja form? of 사회, “society”.

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
社 會

Noun

社會

  1. Hán tự form of xã hội, “society”

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), from Japanese 社会 (しゃかい) ‎(shakai, “society”), semantically readapted from Chinese 社會／社会 (“public gathering where people offer to the earth god”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 社 會
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麻 (100) 泰 (26)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 常者切 黃外切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɦuɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɦʷɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɦwajH/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiaX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭaX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯aX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shè huì

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