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親

親

See also: 亲

Translingual

Han character

親 (radical 147 見+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜木月山山 (YDBUU), four-corner 06910, composition ⿰亲見)

References

  • KangXi: page 1136, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34918
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1602, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3671, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+89AA

Chinese

trad. 親
simp. 亲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
親 *sʰin, *sʰins
寴 *sʰin, *sʰins
儭 *sʰins, *sʰrins
瀙 *sʰins, *ʔsrin, *sʰrins
辛 *siŋ
新 *siŋ
薪 *siŋ
襯 *sʰrins
櫬 *sʰrins
嚫 *tshrinh
莘 *sriŋ
騂 *seŋ
垶 *seŋ
觪 *seŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰin, *sʰins) : phonetic 亲 ‎(OC *siŋ) + semantic 見 ‎(“see”).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 親
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 七人切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰin/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰiĕn/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qīn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 親
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qīn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]i[n]/
English close; parents

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 親
Reading # 1/2
No. 13804
Phonetic
component		 辛
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 親
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰin/
Notes 說文親（同榛）聲

Definitions

親

  1. relatives
  2. parents
  3. marriage
  4. bride
  5. related by blood; blood (brothers, sisters)
  6. close friend
  7. close, intimate
  8. to fraternise with; pro-
  9. personally; with one's own (body part)
  10. to kiss
  11. (Internet, customer service) dear sir or madam

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 親
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 七遴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰinH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰinH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰiĕnH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qìn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 親
Reading # 2/2
No. 13806
Phonetic
component		 辛
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 親
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰins/

Definitions

親

  1. Only used in 親家／亲家 (qìngjia, “one's child's parents-in-law”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

親

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. parent, elder

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
親
おや
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Cognate with or derived from Old Japanese verb 老ゆ ‎(oyu, “to become old”, modern 老いる oiru), from the idea of one's elders.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

親 ‎(hiragana おや, romaji oya)

  1. a mother, a father, a parent (human or otherwise)
  2. the originator or founder of a school, company, or other organization
  3. the boss or leader
  4. the larger one of several objects of the same kind
  5. (gambling) the dealer, the banker
  6. one's ancestors, one's forebears

Idioms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

親 • ‎(chin) (hangeul 친, revised chin, McCune-Reischauer ch'in, Yale chin)

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Compounds

  • 親家: 친가
  • 親監: 친감
  • 親交: 친교
  • 親舊: 친구
  • 親密感: 친밀감
  • 親密하다: 친밀하다
  • 親切: 친절
  • 親戚: 친척
  • 親하다: 친하다

Vietnamese

Han character

親 (thân)

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