Taxonomy of meanings for 孫:　　

  • sūn (OC: squun MC: suon) 思渾切 平 廣韻：【爾雅釋親曰凡子之子爲孫孫之子爲曾孫曾孫之子爲玄孫玄孫之子爲來孫來孫之子爲晜孫晜孫之子爲仍孫仍孫之子爲雲孫又岱岳謂之天孫又姓周文王子康叔封于衞至武公子惠孫曾耳爲衞上卿因氏焉後有孫武孫臏俱善兵法各撰書凡太原東莞呉郡安樂四望又漢複姓二十三氏左傳秦大夫逢孫氏魯卿有臧孫辰仲孫何忌魯桓公之子慶父之後有孟孫氏叔孫氏季孫氏同出桓公号爲三桓子孫代爲魯之上卿秦下大夫楊孫氏齊大夫長孫修丗本云食邑於唐其孫仕晉後号唐孫氏衞有王孫賈出自周頃王之後王孫賈之子自以去王室乆改爲賈孫氏晉濟南太守魚孫瑋出自宋魚石奔楚其孫在國者因以魚孫爲氏漢有烏孫昆彌後漢有士孫瑞古封公之後自皆稱公孫故其姓多非一族也孔子弟子有顓孫師國語晉公子利孫夫之後以利孫爲氏何氏姓苑有經孫新孫古孫牟孫室孫長孫叔孫等氏望稱河南之者是虜姓也思渾切六 】
  • =遜:derivation by tone change> YIELD
    • vtoNSHU: decline ~(遜于位)
    • =遜> OBEY
      • viactbe yielding in one's behaviour, be properly submissive and polite; be docile
      • nabactmodesty, polite obedience
      • vadNobedient
      • obey circumstances by moving> FLEE
        • vt+prep+Nflee

    Additional information about 孫

    說文解字: 【孫】，子之子曰孫。从子、从系。系，續也。 〔小徐本作「從子、系聲。」〕 【思䰟切】

      Criteria
    • DESCENDANT

      1. The general current and common abstract term for offspring is hòu 後 (ant. xiān 先 "forbears").

      2. Yì 裔 (ant. zǔ 祖 "ancestors"), a fairly rare word in pre-Buddhist texts, can refer to any offspring of a clan or occasionally a people.

      3. Zhòu 冑 refers to royal offspring.

      4. Yìn 胤 refers to distant offspring.

      5. Zòng 從 (ant. dí 嫡 "direct heirs") refers to the younger generation members of the same clan who do not immediately inherit.

      6. Zǐ 子 refers to children of any sex. See CHILD

      7. Sūn 孫 refers to all descendants lower than the generation of children.

      8. Shù 庶 and niè 孽 (ant. zhèng 正 "descendant in direct line") refer to offspring by other women than the main wife.

      9. Dí 嫡 / 適 (ant. zòng 從 "descendants who are not heirs") refers specifically to the direct legitimate heir.

      10. Zǐ zhí 子姪 is a general term for descendants.

      11. Zǐ xìng 子姓 specifically refers to the sons and grandsons.

    • MUTILATE

      1. The commonest form of mutilating punishment was yuè 刖 "amputation of the foot".

      2. Yì 劓 refers to the mutilation of the nose.

      3. Bìn 臏 refers to the mutilation of the knee-cap which gave its name to the famous warfare specialist Sūn Bìn 孫臏.

      4. Zhé xiě 折脅 refers to the crushing of ribs.

      NB: The other words in this group are mercifully rare.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: (DESCENDANT)子/CHILD The commonest word for a child is zǐ 子"son; child; rarely: baby".