孫 (sūn)
grandchild/surname Sun
How 孫 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 子 — child
- Traditional
- 孫
- Simplified
- 孙
Components
- 子 child
- ㇒ N/A
- 糸 silk
Common words using 孫
- 孫悟空 sūnwùkōng
- Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
- 兒孫 érsūn
- descendant
- 外孫 wàisūn
- daughter's son; grandson; descendant via the female line
- 外孫女 wàisūnnǚ
- daughter's daughter; granddaughter
- 子孫 zǐsūn
- offspring; posterity
- 孫女 sūnnǚ
- son's daughter; granddaughter
- 孫權 sūnquán
- Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳|吴 in the Three Kingdoms period
- 炎黃子孫 yánhuángzǐsūn
- Descendants of the Fiery Emperor and Yellow Emperor (i.e. Han Chinese people)
- 名落孫山 míngluòsūnshān
- (idiom) to fail in imperial exam
- 姪孫 zhísūn
- grandnephew
- 姪孫女 zhísūnnǚ
- grand niece
- 子子孫孫 zǐzǐsūnsūn
- one's posterity
孫 in a sentence
王先生有三個孫子。
Wáng xiānshēng yǒu sānge sūnzi.
“Mr. Wang has three grandsons.”
How common is 孫?
孫 is the 993rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.1% of all running text.
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