漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
孫: grandchild, descendants
JLPT N210 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
子 carries the meaning · 系 is drawn in
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
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Two readings, and the words that use each
ソンson · on'yomi · in compounds
- 子孫しそんdescendants, posterity
- 皇孫こうそんimperial grandchild
まごmago · kun'yomi · on its own
- 孫まごgrandchild
- 孫娘まごむすめgranddaughter
- 孫弟子まごでしdisciples of one's disciples
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 曾孫ひまごgreat-grandchild
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)子 son + 系 continue
Zh:,yue:,nan:sun.
Source: Wiktionary, 孫 (rev. 92638851), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Child (子) + genealogy/line (系). A "child" who continues the family "line" through another generation—the definition of a grandchild.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
系
Also built on lineage (系)
Also read ソン
6 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 孙 · traditional, as in Japanese · sūn
Japan keeps the traditional form 孫; mainland China simplifies it to 孙.
- Simplified
- 孙 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 孫 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sūn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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