Hanja Analyzer
親

親 — chin

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
친할 친
Romanization
chin
English
relatives, parents; intimate
Mandarin
qīn
Japanese on'yomi
シン
Japanese kun'yomi
おや おや- した.しい した.しむ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 2
Newspaper frequency
#406 of 2,500
Strokes
16
Radical
見 (147, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+89AA

How 親 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 親 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辛, 見.

Korean example words with 親

  • 친견親見 Korean gloss: 친히 봄
  • 친수親授 Korean gloss: 손수 줌
  • 망친亡親 Korean gloss: 죽은 부모
  • 원친遠親 Korean gloss: 먼 일가붙이
  • 친기親忌 Korean gloss: 부모의 제사
  • 친명親命 Korean gloss: 부모의 명령
  • 친산親山 Korean gloss: 부모의 산소
  • 친환親患 Korean gloss: 부모의 병환
  • 본친本親 Korean gloss: 본디의 어버이
  • 친서親書 Korean gloss: 몸소 쓴 편지
  • 친야親野 Korean gloss: 야당과 가까움
  • 친여親與 Korean gloss: 여당과 가까움

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 親

  • 親おや parent; parents; mother and father
  • 父親ちちおや father
  • 母親ははおや mother
  • 両親りょうしん parents; both parents
  • 親子おやこ parent and child
  • 親方おやかた master; boss; chief
  • 親類しんるい relative; relation; kin
  • 親善しんぜん friendship; goodwill; friendly relations
  • 肉親にくしん blood relationship; blood relative
  • 親族しんぞく relative; relation; kin
  • 親会社おやがいしゃ parent company
  • 親しむしたしむ to be intimate with; to befriend

Characters sharing the phonetic 親

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “친” in Korean.

Other hanja read “친”

Other hanja with radical 見

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences