赤子
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Chinese[edit]
red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked |
child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight | ||
---|---|---|---|
simp. and trad. (赤子) |
赤 | 子 | |
Literally: “red child”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
赤子
- newborn baby; neonate
- (figurative) person cherishing true love for his native land; the people (of a country)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Kanji in this term | |
---|---|
赤 | 子 |
あか Grade: 1 |
こ > ご Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
For pronunciation and definitions of 赤子 – see the following entry. | ||
| ||
(This term, 赤子, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
Etymology 2[edit]
Kanji in this term | |
---|---|
赤 | 子 |
せき Grade: 1 |
し Grade: 1 |
on’yomi |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- Synonym of あかご (akago, “baby”)
- (literary) emperor's citizens
- 玉音放送
- 億兆ノ赤子ヲ保シ
- to save the millions of our subjects
- 玉音放送
References[edit]
Categories:
- Cantonese terms with homophones
- Chinese lemmas
- Mandarin lemmas
- Cantonese lemmas
- Hokkien lemmas
- Chinese nouns
- Mandarin nouns
- Cantonese nouns
- Hokkien nouns
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Literary Chinese terms with quotations
- Japanese terms spelled with 赤 read as あか
- Japanese terms spelled with 子 read as こ
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Japanese terms spelled with 赤 read as せき
- Japanese terms spelled with 子 read as し
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese terms with multiple readings
- Japanese literary terms
- Japanese terms with quotations