親王
Chinese
dear; intimate; parent dear; intimate; parent; relation; closely related; parents-in-law of one's offspring |
king; Wang (proper name) | ||
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trad. (親王) | 親 | 王 | |
simp. (亲王) | 亲 | 王 |
Pronunciation
Descendants
- → Mongolian: чин ван (čin van)
- → Manchu: ᠴᡳᠨ
ᠸᠠᠩ (cin wang)
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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親 | 王 |
しん Grade: 2 |
おう > のう Grade: 1 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Old Japanese,[1][2] borrowed from Middle Chinese 親王 (t͡sʰiɪn ɦʉɐŋ), in turn a compound of 親 (“very familiar; very close”) + 王 (“king”, in ancient Japan, this term was also used to refer to an imperial prince), so called because of the closeness to the reigning emperor. The ō reading for 王 changes to nō as an instance of renjō (連声).
First cited in Japanese to a text from 718 CE.[1]
Noun
親王 • (shinnō) ←しんわう (sin'wau)?
- [from 718] a specific rank granted to certain male members of the imperial family:
- an East Asian imperial prince who is either brother or son to the reigning emperor
- in ancient Japan, any of the emperor's brothers or sons
- [from the 1600s] any of the direct male descendants of the emperor of Japan, down to any imperial great-great-grandchildren
- [from 1947] any of the legitimate direct male heirs of the emperor of Japan
- [from 1801] (theater, kabuki) Short for 親王鬘 (shinnō kazura)., literally "imperial prince wig", specific style of wig used in kabuki
See also
References
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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