甥

甥 U+7525, 甥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7525
← 甤
[U+7524]
CJK Unified Ideographs 甦 →
[U+7526]

Translingual

Han character

甥 (Kangxi radical 100, 生+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹一田大尸 (HMWKS), four-corner 26127, composition ⿰生男)

  1. sister's child, sororal niece or nephew

References

  • KangXi: page 755, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21689
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1165, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2578, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7525

Chinese

simp. and trad.
甥

Glyph origin

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sriŋ (“sister”), related by Coblin (1986) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-riŋ ~ s-r(j)aŋ (“to live; to be alive; to give birth; raw; green”).

Cognate with Tibetan སྲིང་མོ (sring mo), Kinnauri riŋz, Jangshung śiŋ, Chinese 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs, “life, birth”) and 姓 (OC *sleŋs, “family name”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • 1san - vernacular;
  • 1sen - literary.

Rime
Character 甥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 庚 (109)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 所庚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨjŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʃɐŋ/
Wang
Li
/ʃɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sang1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 甥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sræng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s.reŋ/
English SiSo or SiDa; DaHu

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 甥
Reading # 1/1
No. 11315
Phonetic
component
生
Rime
group
耕
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
生
Old
Chinese
/*sreŋ/

Definitions

甥

  1. sororal niece or sororal nephew
  2. (obsolete) son-in-law

Synonyms

See also

Compounds

  • 表甥
  • 甥館/甥馆

References

Japanese

Kanji

甥

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
甥
おい
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

甥(おい) • (oi) ←をひ (wofi)?

  1. nephew

Antonyms

References

  1. 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 甥 (eumhun 생질 생 (saengjil saeng))

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