囝

囝 U+56DD, 囝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56DD
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Translingual

Han character

囝 (radical 31, 囗+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 田弓木 (WND), four-corner 60407, composition ⿴囗子)

Derived characters
  • 𣳲

References
  • KangXi: page 216, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4688
  • Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 713, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+56DD

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogram (指事) : 囗 + 子 (“child; son”). Compare 囡.

Etymology 1
simp. and trad.
 囝
variant forms 仔

Min dialectal word for “son; child”. Substrate borrowing, cognate with Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun (“child, son”) (Vietnamese con, Khmer កូន (koun)) (Schuessler, 2007). Likely related to 昆 (OC *kuːn, “descendants”) (ibid.).

Pronunciation
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 囝
Reading # 1/1
No. 6118
Phonetic
component		 囝
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*kranʔ/
Notes 唐人閩方言字

Definitions

囝

(Min)
  1. son
  2. child
  3. baby, infant
  4. Diminutive suffix attached to nouns, equivalent to Mandarin 子 (zǐ).
  5. Diminutive suffix attached to classifiers.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 兒子 (“son”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 子
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 兒子
Mandarin Beijing 兒子, 小子
Taiwan 兒子
Tianjin 兒子, 小子
Harbin 兒子
Shenyang 兒子
Jinan 兒, 兒子, 小子
Muping 兒郎, 兒
Luoyang 兒子
Wanrong 娃, 兒
Xi'an 兒, 兒子
Xining 兒子
Xuzhou 兒, 兒子
Yinchuan 兒子
Lanzhou 兒子
Ürümqi 兒子
Wuhan 兒子, 兒
Chengdu 兒子, 兒
Guiyang 兒子, 男娃娃, 男娃兒
Liuzhou 崽
Kunming 兒子
Yangzhou 兒子
Nanjing 兒子
Hefei 兒子
Nantong 侯
Malaysia 兒子
Singapore 兒子
Cantonese Guangzhou 仔
Hong Kong 仔
Taishan 仔
Dongguan 仔
Yangjiang 仔
Gan Nanchang 崽
Lichuan 崽, 子
Pingxiang 崽, 倈牯, 倈
Hakka Meixian 倈仔
Xingning 倈哩
Huidong 倈仔
Qujiang 倈子
Xiaosanjiang 阿弟
Changting 倈子
Pingyu 倈子
Wuping 子哩
Ninghua 子
Yudu 子
Ruijin 倈子
Shangyou 崽
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 倈仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 倈仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 倈仔
Dongshi (Dabu) 倈
Hsinchu (Raoping) 倈仔
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 後生
Sabah 倈子
Huizhou Jixi 兒子
Jin Taiyuan 兒子, 小子
Xinzhou 兒, 小子
Min Bei Jian'ou 囝
Min Dong Fuzhou 囝, 丈夫囝
Min Nan Xiamen 囝, 後生, 後的
Quanzhou 囝, 後生
Zhangzhou 囝, 後生
Taipei 囝, 後生
Kaohsiung 囝, 後生
Tainan 囝, 後生
Taichung 囝, 後生, 後的
Hsinchu 囝, 後生
Lukang 囝, 後生
Sanxia 囝, 後生
Yilan 囝, 後生
Kinmen 囝, 後生
Magong 囝, 後生
Penang 囝, 後生
Philippines (Manila) 囝
Chaozhou 囝, 逗囝
Haikou 囝
Pinghua Nanning 崽
Wu Shanghai 兒子
Suzhou 兒子
Hangzhou 兒子
Wenzhou 兒
Chongming 兒子
Danyang 兒子
Jinhua 兒
Ningbo 兒子
Xiang Changsha 崽伢子, 崽, 伢子
Shuangfeng 崽, 伢基
Loudi 崽
Dialectal synonyms of 子 (“general diminutive suffix”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 子
Mandarin Beijing 子
Taiwan 子
Cantonese Guangzhou 仔
Hong Kong 仔
Hakka Meixian 仔
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 仔
Min Dong Fuzhou 囝
Min Nan Xiamen 仔
Penang 囝

Compounds
Derived terms from 囝

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 囝 – see 囡 (“child; daughter; etc.”).
(This character, 囝, is a variant form of 囡.)

Etymology 3

One of the Chinese characters of Empress Wu.

For pronunciation and definitions of 囝 – see 月 (“moon; moon-shaped objects; etc.”).
(This character, 囝, is a variant form of 月.)

Japanese

Kanji
囝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): けん (ken), げん (gen), がち (gachi)
  • Kun: こども (kodomo)

Korean

Hanja

囝 • (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune–Reischauer kŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

囝 (cưởng, kiển, niên)

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References
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