孕

孕	U+5B55, 孕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B55

← 孔
[U+5B54]

CJK Unified Ideographs

孖 →
[U+5B56]

Translingual

Han character

孕 (radical 39, 子+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸弓木 (NSND), four-corner 1740₇, composition ⿱乃子)

References

KangXi: page 277, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6938

Dae Jaweon: page 545, character 4

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1009, character 5

Unihan data for U+5B55

Chinese

simp. and trad.		孕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 孕
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a pregnant woman with a fetus.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yún
Min Nan (POJ): īn / ūn / ēng
Wu (Wiktionary): hhyn (T3); hhion (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: yùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ
  - Wade–Giles: yün⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunn
  - IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jan⁶
  - Yale: yahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: yen⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /jɐn²²/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yún
  - Hakka Romanization System: iun`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yun³
  - IPA: /i̯un³¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yún
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iun`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yun³
  - IPA: /(j)i̯un³¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: īn
  - Tâi-lô: īn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: in
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /in⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /in³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /in²²/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ūn
  - Tâi-lô: ūn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: un
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /un³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ēng
  - Tâi-lô: īng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: eng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ²²/

Note:

īn/ūn - vernacular;
ēng - literary.

Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: hhyn (T3); hhion (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /ɦʏɲ²³/, /ɦi̯ʊŋ²³/

Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 孕
Mandarin	Beijing	/yn⁵¹/
	Harbin	/yn⁵³/
	Tianjin	/yn⁵³/
	Jinan	/yẽ²¹/
	Qingdao	/yə̃⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/yn³¹²/
	Xi'an	/iẽ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/yə̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/yŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/yñ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/yŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/yn³⁵/
	Chengdu	/zuən¹³/
	Guiyang	/zuen²¹³/
	Kunming	/ĩ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/yn⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/yn⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/yəŋ⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/iŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ĩŋ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦyŋ²³/ /ɦioŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦyən³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦin¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jaŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/yʌ̃²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/yan⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/yn⁵⁵/ /yn¹¹/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/yn⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/yn²¹/
Hakka	Meixian
Hakka	Taoyuan	/in³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jɐn²²/
	Nanning	/yn²²/
	Hong Kong	/jɐn²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/iŋ²²/ /in²¹/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/ɛiŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/iŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/zeŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kua³³/

Middle Chinese: /jɨŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	孕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以證切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/jɨŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ieŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiŋ^H/
Li Rong	/iəŋ^H/
Wang Li	/jĭəŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯əŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yìng

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l[i]ŋ-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*lɯŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	孕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yùn
Middle Chinese	‹ ying^H ›
Old Chinese	/*l[i]ŋ-s/
English	pregnant
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	孕
Reading #	1/1
No.	16475
Phonetic component	孕
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	孕
Old Chinese	/*lɯŋs/

Definitions

孕

to be pregnant
pregnancy
foetus

Compounds

不孕 (bùyùn)
不孕性
不孕症
不孕真菌
人工受孕 (réngōng shòuyùn)
包孕 (bāoyùn)
包孕句
受孕 (shòuyùn)

可孕物質／可孕物质
子宮外孕／子宫外孕
孕吐 (yùntù)
孕婦／孕妇 (yùnfù)
孕期 (yùnqī)
孕珠
孕穗 (yùnsuì)
孕育 (yùnyù)

懷孕／怀孕 (huáiyùn)
毓子孕孫／毓子孕孙
腹腔懷孕／腹腔怀孕
身孕 (shēnyùn)
避孕 (bìyùn)
避孕套 (bìyùntào)
避孕藥／避孕药 (bìyùnyào)

Japanese

Kanji

孕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: よう (yō)
Kan-on: よう (yō)
Kun: はらむ (haramu, 孕む)

Korean

Hanja

孕 • (ing) (hangeul 잉, revised ing, McCune–Reischauer ing)

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Vietnamese

Han character

孕 (dựng, dằng, dửng, rặng)

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