雙

Translingual

Han character

雙 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE), four-corner 2040₇, composition ⿰雔又)

Derived characters

• 欆, 㩳, 孇, 𡾼, 𢅻, 𢥠, 𧕟, 𨇯, 𪫄, 𨰚, 𩽧, 䝄, 艭, 𧄐, 䉶, 𩆿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1368, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42116
• Dae Jaweon: page 1873, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4104, character 10
• Unihan data for U+96D9

Chinese

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 雙姓 (姓氏) (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Siang (sèⁿ) (Southern Min)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 雙
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 雔 (“two birds”) + 又 (“hand”) – Represents two birds (隹) in someone's right hand (又).

Etymology

Several etymologies have been posited:

• From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”), whence Jingpho zum (“to be in pairs”), Burmese စုံ (cum, “pair”), but this comparison may be problematic given the mismatch in the final nasal (STEDT).
• Related to Tibetan ཟུང (zung, “pair; couple”), Mru (choŋ, “pair”) (Coblin, 1986; Löffler, 1966; Schuessler, 2007), but this would require assuming the Proto-Sino-Tibetan word to be *C-zuŋ (Schuessler, 2007). Jacques (2015b) rules out the possibility of comparing with the Tibetan word because Tibetan z- comes from *dz.
• Doublet of 孿 (OC *smroːns, *smrons, “twin”) (Baxter, 1992), but this has been related to Jingpho marun (“to have twins”) (from run (“to be in pairs”)), which would point to yet another Proto-Sino-Tibetan root *run (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

雙

1. (attributive) two; double; twin

   Antonym: 單／单

   雙手／双手  ―  shuāngshǒu  ―  both hands

   雙面／双面  ―  shuāngmiàn  ―  double-sided, two-faced

   雙向／双向  ―  shuāngxiàng  ―  bidirectional; two-way

2. (attributive, of an integer) even (divisible by two)
3. (attributive) double; two-fold; twice
4. (dialectal) twins
5. Classifier for a pair of objects. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   Antonym: 隻／只 (zhī)

   一雙鞋／一双鞋  ―  yī shuāng xié  ―  a pair of shoes

   一雙筷子／一双筷子 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ soeng¹ (or sung¹) faai³ zi²   ―  a pair of chopsticks

6. a rare surname: Shuang

Synonyms

• (twins):

• (pair):

Compounds

Descendants

Others:

• → Proto-Mien: *suŋᴬ (“pair”)
• → Proto-Tai: *soːŋᴬ (“two”)
  • Bouyei: soongl
  • Proto-Southwestern Tai: *sɔːŋᴬ
    • Ahom: 𑜏𑜨𑜂𑜫 (soṅ)
    • Lao: ສອງ (sǭng)
    • Lü: ᦉᦸᧂ (ṡoang)
    • Northern Thai: ᩈᩬᨦ
    • Shan: သွင် (sǎung)
    • Tai Dam: ꪎꪮꪉ
    • Tai Nüa: ᥔᥩᥒᥴ (sóang)
    • Thai: สอง (sɔ̌ɔng)
  • Zhuang: song

References

• “雙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 双)

1. pair; set

Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: ふた (futa, 雙); ふたつ (futatsu, 雙つ); ならぶ (narabu, 雙ぶ)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 雙 (MC sraewng). Has unusual tensing, the only other such readings being 氏 (ssi) and 喫 (kkik).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

雙

Wikisource

雙 (eumhun 쌍 쌍 (ssang ssang))

1. Hanja form^? of 쌍 (“pair”).

Vietnamese

Han character

雙: Hán Nôm readings: song, rông, suông

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Zhuang

Numeral

雙

1. Sawndip form of song