親

親 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜木月山山 (YDBUU), four-corner 0691₀, composition ⿰亲見)

• 儭(𠋆), 𫥝(𫥔), 嚫(𰈍), 𡤅, 𭣋, 瀙, 𮥰, 𮍊, 櫬(榇), 𥗒, 襯, 𧭼, 䞋(𫎪), 𮜪, 𮜽, 𨯦, 寴, 藽, 𥨾

• 亲 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1136, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34918
• Dae Jaweon: page 1602, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3671, character 12
• Unihan data for U+89AA

Historical forms of the character 親
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Bronze script: phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰin, *sʰins) : phonetic 辛 (OC *siŋ) + semantic 見 (“see”).

Seal script: phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰin, *sʰins) : phonetic 𣓀 () + semantic 見 (“see”). The left part (a chisel with a tree at the bottom to indicate "hazelnut branch" used as a whip) was then stylized as 亲, which originally is a variant of 辛, the chisel.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dziŋ (“relatives, ancestors”) (STEDT). Cognate with Burmese စဉ် (cany, “to line up, arrange”).

親

1. ^⁜ paternal relatives
2. intimate; bosom; closely acquainted; beloved; dear
3. parent(s); father and/or mother
4. relatives; blood or marriage relation
5. related by blood; blood (brothers, sisters)
6. marriage; matrimony
7. to be close to; to become intimate with
8. to fraternise with; to support or endorse; pro-

   親中／亲中  ―  qīn Zhōng  ―  pro-China, usually meaning pro-CCP

   • 今以汝為親魏倭王。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     今以汝为亲魏倭王。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Chen Shou, Records of the Three Kingdoms, circa 3^rd century CE

     Jīn yǐ rǔ wéi qīn wèi wō wáng.

     You shall be the Ruler of Wa, Friendly to Wei.

9. to approach; to go near; to get in touch with
10. to kiss; to brush one's lips against
11. personally; in person; with one's own (body part)
12. close person; reliable person; intimate friend
13. accurate; true
14. 34th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "kinship" (𝌧)
15. (Mainland China, Internet, customer service) dear sir or madam
16. Alternative form of 新 (xīn, “to renew; to replace”)
17. a surname

親

1. relationship between the families (especially the parents) of a married couple; in-laws

親

1. (Hokkien) Alternative form of 唚 (“to kiss”)
   • 2023, “愛之味”, 蔡宜霖 (lyrics), 陳祈信 (music)‎performed by 蔡多多 and 郭忠祐 [York Kuo]:

     情不自禁親你的相片 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     情不自禁亲你的相片 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     chêng-put-chū-kìm chim lí ê siòng-phìⁿ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     I couldn't help myself but kiss your photo

• “親”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “亲”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 189.

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. parent, elder

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: おや (oya, 親, Jōyō)、したしい (shitashii, 親しい, Jōyō)、したしむ (shitashimu, 親しむ, Jōyō)、みずから (mizukara, 親ら)
• Nanori: ぎ (gi)、ちか (chika)、のり (nori)

From Old Japanese,^[1] from Proto-Japonic *əya. Cognate with or derived from Old Japanese verb 老ゆ (oyu, “to become old”, modern 老いる oiru), from the idea of one's elders.^[2]

First cited in the Kojiki of 712.^[1]

• (Tokyo) おや (Odaka – )^[3][4][5]
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親(おや) • (oya) 

1. a parent
   • 1988 July 30 [1984 July 25], Fujiko Fujio, “世界名作童話第１巻, みにくいアヒルの子 [World’s Renowned Fairy Tales Book 1: The Ugly Duckling]”, in ポストの中の明日 [Post-Mid-Tomorrow] (藤子・F・不二雄のSF短編; 2), 10th edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 112:

     ぼくのほんとのおやはだれかしら。

     Boku no honto no oya wa dare kashira.

     What are my real parents like?

2. the originator or founder of a school, company, or other organization
3. the boss or leader
4. the larger one of several objects of the same kind
5. (hanafuda, card games, by extension, board games) the dealer, (gambling) the banker

   Coordinate term: 子 (ko)

6. one's ancestors, one's forebears

親(しん) • (shin-) 

1. pro- (supportive of)

• 反(はん) (han)

From Middle Chinese 親 (MC tshin|tshinH). Recorded as Middle Korean 친 (chin) (Yale: chin) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

親

Wikisource

親 (eumhun 친할 친 (chinhal chin))

1. hanja form^? of 친 (“intimate”)
2. hanja form^? of 친 (“relative; parent”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

親: Hán Nôm readings: thân

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