子子孫孫

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Chinese

child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
grandson grandson
trad. (子子孫孫)
simp. (子子孙孙)
AABB-type reduplication of 子孫子孙 (zǐsūn)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (13) (16)
Final () (19) (55)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter tsiX swon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sɨX/ /suən/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sɨX/ /suon/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sieX/ /suən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sɨX/ /swən/
Li
Rong
/t͡siəX/ /suən/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭəX/ /suən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡siX/ /suən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zi2 syun1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsiX › ‹ swon ›
Old
Chinese
/*tsəʔ/ /*ˁu/
English child; gentleman, master grandchild; descendant

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 17857 12178
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔslɯʔ/ /*suːn/

Noun

子子孫孫

  1. generation after generation of descendants