公孫

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See also: 公孙

Chinese

		just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister	grandson
trad. (公孫)		公	孫
simp. (公孙)		公	孙

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gōngsūn

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥㄙㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹ syun¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gorng¹ song¹ / gorng¹ suong¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Kong-sun

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gōngsūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥㄙㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gongsun
  - Wade–Giles: kung¹-sun¹
  - Yale: gūng-swūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gongsuen
  - Palladius: гунсунь (gunsunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ su̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gung¹ syun¹
  - Yale: gūng syūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹ syn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gung¹ xun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ syːn⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gorng¹ song¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɒŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)nɔŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gorng¹ suong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɒŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)nuoŋ⁵³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kong-sun
  - Tâi-lô: Kong-sun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kongswn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² sun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ sun³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² sun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ sun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ sun⁴⁴/

Noun

公孫

(literary) grandson of a feudal lord
(literary) a respectful form of address for the grandson of an aristocratic bureaucrat

See also

公子 (gōngzǐ)

Proper noun

公孫

a Chinese compound surname (no longer common in modern times)
公孫瓚／公孙瓒 ― Gōngsūn Zàn ― Gongsun Zan (warlord during the late Eastern Han Dynasty)

Derived terms

公孫樹 / 公孙树 (gōngsūnshù)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “公孙”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 233.

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