親 (can1 can3 | qin1 qing4) : parent; relative; intimate; personally

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親

can1 can3

qin1 qing4

[粵] can1 | [國] qin1
[1] [n] parent; relative; kin
[2] [adj] of blood relation; biological
[3] [adj] intimate; in favour of; pro-
[4] [adv] personally; in person
[5] [n] marriage; match
[6] [國] [v] kiss | [粵] 錫

[粵] can3 | [國] qing4
mainly used in 親家

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Stroke count: 16

Level: 1

Radical: (#147)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

親 / 亲

This word has been viewed 1 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 10th Sep 2013 15:40

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表親 biu2 can1 biao3 qin1 = cousin (via female line)

姻親 jan1 can1 yin1 qin1 = affinity; in-laws

跌親 dit3 can1 = fall down; fall forward; fall on one's face

父親 fu6 can1 fu4 qin5 = father (formal)

母親 mou5 can1 mu3 qin1 = mother (formal)

親自 can1 zi6 qin1 zi4 = personally; in person; oneself

探親 taam3 can1 tan4 qin1 = to visit one's family or relations

母親節 mou5 can1 zit3 mu3 qin1 jie2 = Mother's Day

父母親 fu6 mou5 can1 fu4 mu3 qin1 = parents

可親 ho2 can1 ke3 qin1 = amiable; kindly; nice
See all 101 compounds (CantoDict reports 103 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 7 examples containing 親

呢位係我父親。粵
This is my father.

喺聖誕節，我哋會大宴親友粵
At Christmas we will have a big party.

跌親就企返起身啦！粵
If you fall over, get back up again!
[Lit. fall bad-thing, stand back up body. As the translation suggests, this is actually a conditional sentence, even though it might not seem like it. More explicitly we could say 如果你跌親嘅話，你就企返起身啦！]

佢郁啲撞火﹐撞親火就面都紅晒。粵
His face flares red whenever he gets cross, which happens quite often.
[Cantonese language often prefers 'simple' repetition (撞火) to 'unnatural' conjunction (such as 每當) for the sense of "whenever".]

逢親放假我哋都會出國遊埠粵
We travel overseas whenever there is a holiday.

唔好意思，要你親自出馬粵
Sorry to make you come and personally deal with this.
[Lit. sorry, need you personally come-out horse]

我嗰陣時親眼見到隻獅子喺動物園嗰度衝咗出嚟粵
With my own eyes, I saw a lion come charging out of the zoo!
[Lit. I that time own-eyes see-arrive [counter] lion at zoo that-place zoom-already out come 出嚟 implies that you're standing outside of the zoo, because the lion's coming towards you 咗 implies the lion's already outside the zoo gate (completed)]

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