親 (can1 can3 | qin1 qin4 {qing4}) : relative, parent

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親

can1 can3

qin1 qin4 {qing4}

[1] relatives [2] parents [3] [v] love; intimate; near to; dear [4] personally; personal; person; self [5] [v] kiss

Stroke count: 16

Level: 2

Radical: (#147)

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

親 / 亲

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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父親 fu6 can1 fu4 qin5 = father (formal)

母親 mou5 can1 mu3 qin1 = mother (formal)

親自 can1 zi6 qin1 zi4 = personally

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

至親 zi3 can1 = a very close relative

親嘴 can1 zeoi2 qin1 zui3 = kiss

親眼看到 can1 ngaan5 hon3 dou3*2 qin1 yan3 kan4 dao4 = see with one's own eyes 國
See all 92 compounds (CantoDict reports 93 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，我哋會大宴親朋粵
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！]

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

我撴親個八月十五粵
I fell on my bottom.

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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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 親
Unicode code for this character: U+89AA (off-site link)

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