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U+96D9, 雙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96D9

[U+96D8]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+96DA]

Translingual

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Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

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

Derived characters

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References

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  • 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

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simp.
alternative forms
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Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (two birds) + (hand) – Represents two birds () in someone's right hand ().

Etymology

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Several etymologies have been posited:

Pronunciation

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Note: shuàng - variant used in words meaning “twin” (e.g. 雙棒兒, 雙生兒).
Note: sung1 - variant only for “a pair (of chopsticks)”.
Note:
  • sang1 - vernacular;
  • sorng1 - literary.
Note:
  • siang/sang - vernacular;
  • song - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂuɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂuaŋ⁴⁴/ ~手
/ʂuaŋ⁵³/ 一對~兒
Tianjin /suɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʂuaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʂuaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʂuaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /faŋ²¹/
Xining /fɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /fɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /ʂuɑŋ⁴⁴/
/fɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /suaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /suaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /suaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂuã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʂuaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʂuɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /suɒ̃¹¹/ 成~成對
/t͡sʰuɒ̃⁴⁵/ ~生生
Pingyao /suɑŋ¹³/
/t͡sʰuə³⁵/ ~生生
Hohhot /suɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /sɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /sɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕyɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /so³¹/
Tunxi /sau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕyan³³/
Xiangtan /sɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /sɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /suŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /suŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sœŋ⁵³/
Nanning /sœŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sɔŋ⁵⁵/
/siaŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /souŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /saŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /tiaŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (9)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter sraewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠʌŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚɔŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃɔŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨwŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʃɔŋ/
Wang
Li
/ʃɔŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂɔŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
song1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shuāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sræwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]roŋ/
English a pair

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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
No. 11932
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sroːŋ/

Definitions

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  1. (attributive) two; double; twin
    Antonym:
      ―  shuāngshǒu  ―  both hands
      ―  shuāngmiàn  ―  double-sided, two-faced
      ―  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: (zhī)
      ―  shuāng xié  ―  a pair of shoes
    筷子筷子 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 soeng1 (or sung1) faai3 zi2 [Jyutping]  ―  a pair of chopsticks
  6. a rare surname: Shuang

Synonyms

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  • (twins):
  • (pair):

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (そう) ()
  • Korean: 쌍(雙) (ssang)
  • Vietnamese: song ()

Others:

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. pair; set

Readings

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

Korean

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (ssang ssang))

  1. hanja form? of (pair)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: song, rông, suông

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Zhuang

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Numeral

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  1. Sawndip form of song