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息子

息子

Chinese

		news; interest; breath news; interest; breath; rest	child; son; (noun suff.) child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch
simp. and trad. (息子)		息	子
anagram		子息

Noun

息子

(archaic) (one's) biological son
(dialectal) great-grandson

Japanese

Kanji in this term
息	子
むす Grade: 3	こ Grade: 1
Irregular

Etymology

From 生す ‎(musu, “to beget”) +‎ 子 ‎(ko, “child”).^[1]^[2] The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

(Irregular reading)
(Tokyo) むすこ [mùsúkó] (Heiban - [0])^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [mɯᵝsɯ̥ᵝko̞]

Alternative forms

息 (rare)

Noun

息子 ‎(hiragana むすこ, romaji musuko)

(humble) a son (male child)
- 1994 November 4, Yozaburo Kanari; Fumiya Sato, “異い人じん館かん村むら殺さつ人じん事じ件けん⑪ [The Murder Case in the Village of Western-Style Houses ⑪]”, in 金きん田だ一いち少しょう年ねんの事じ件けん簿ぼ [The Kindaichi Case Files], volume 3 (fiction, in Japanese), 9th edition, Tokyo: Kodansha, ISBN 4-06-311914-9, page 84:
  彼かれは‥‥竜りゅう一いちは私わたしの息むす子こなんだ‼
  
  Kare wa‥‥ Ryūichi wa watashi no musuko nanda
  
  He's‥‥ Ryūichi is really my son‼
(vulgar) a cock, a dick (****)

Synonyms

坊 (ぼ)っちゃん ‎(botchan) (honorific)
息 (むす)子 (こ)さん ‎(musuko-san) (honorific)

Antonyms

娘 (むすめ) ‎(musume): a daughter

References

↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3