孕
yùn HSK7

be pregnant

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approved by Prismcool · Feb 21, 2024, 02:05 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Feb 21, 2024, 02:05 AM

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Pictograph of a pregnant woman (身) with a child (子) inside of her body.

Components

身
身 Iconic component

Depicts a woman with her uterus emphasized. Modern form looks like unrelated 乃.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 身 than it was in ancient scripts.
子
子 Iconic component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartyingHl[i]ŋ-s pregnant

說文解字

《說文》：“孕，褢子也。从子，从几。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)