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雙

雙

See also: 双

Translingual

Shinjitai 双
Simplified 双
Traditional 雙

Simplified from 䨇 (双 → 又)

Han character

雙 (radical 172 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE), four-corner 20407, composition ⿰雔又)

References

  • KangXi: page 1368, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42116
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1873, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4104, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+96D9

Chinese

trad. 雙
simp. 双

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (雙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
雙 *sroːŋ
艭 *sroːŋ
愯 *soŋʔ
㩳 *soŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 雔 ‎(“two birds”) + 又 ‎(“hand”).

Represents two birds (隹) in someone's right hand (又).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 雙
Mandarin Beijing /ʂuɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂuaŋ⁴⁴/ ～手
/ʂuaŋ⁵³/ 一對～兒
Tianjin /suɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʂuaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʂuaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʂuaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /faŋ²¹/
Xining /fɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /fɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /ʂuɑŋ⁴⁴/
/fɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /suaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /suaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /suaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂuã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʂuaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʂuɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /suɒ̃¹¹/ 成～成對
/t͡sʰuɒ̃⁴⁵/ ～生生
Pingyao /suɑŋ¹³/
/t͡sʰuə³⁵/ ～生生
Hohhot /suɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /sɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /sɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕyɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /so³¹/
Tunxi /sau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕyan³³/
Xiangtan /sɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /sɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /suŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /suŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sœŋ⁵³/
Nanning /sœŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sɔŋ⁵⁵/
/siaŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /souŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /saŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tiaŋ²³/
Rime
Character 雙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 江 (9)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 所江切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃˠʌŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃᵚɔŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃɔŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂaɨwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʃɔŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ʃɔŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂɔŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shuāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 雙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shuāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sræwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]roŋ/
English a pair

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 雙
Reading # 1/1
No. 11932
Phonetic
component		 雙
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 雙
Old
Chinese		 /*sroːŋ/

Definitions

雙

  1. Classifier for a pair of objects.  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    Antonyms: 隻／只 (zhī)
    一雙鞋 / 一双鞋  ―  yī shuāng xié  ―  a pair of shoes
    一雙筷子 / 一双筷子 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1soeng1 (or sung1) faai3 zi2 [Jyutping]  ―  a pair of chopsticks
  2. two-; double; twin
    Antonyms: 單／单 (dān)
    雙面 / 双面  ―  shuāngmiàn  ―  double-sided, two-faced
    雙向 / 双向  ―  shuāngxiàng  ―  bidirectional, two-way
  3. (number) even
  4. A surname​. Shuang

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (雙):

Others:

  • Proto-Tai: *soːŋᴬ ‎(“two”)

Japanese

Kanji

雙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 双)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

雙 • ‎(ssang) (hangeul 쌍, revised ssang, McCune-Reischauer ssang, Yale ssang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雙 (song, rông, suông)

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Zhuang

Numeral

雙 ‎(simplified Sawndip form 双)

  1. Traditional Sawndip form of song.

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