sūn
grandchild
Semantic compound of "child" (子) and "relation" (系).
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 孫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
grandson | ||
grandson | ||
son's daughter | ||
offspring | ||
same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤu[n] | swon | sūn | grandchild; descendant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.0524% of movies
1819th most common character in movies
995th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5B6B |
Shuowen | “孫，子之子曰孫。从子，从系。系，續也。” |
Sources
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