孫 — kanji meaning “grandchild”
孫
grandchild, descendants
- Meanings
- grandchild, descendants
- On'yomi
- ソン (son)
- Kun'yomi
- まご
- Name readings
- ひ
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- 4
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #1388 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 39
- Chinese reading
- sūn — Chinese character page
Words with 孫
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 子孫 | しそん shison | descendant; progeny; offspring |
| 孫娘 | まごむすめ magomusume | granddaughter |
| 孫子 | まごこ magoko | children and grandchildren; posterity; descendants |
| 孫悟空 | そんごくう songokuu | Sun Wukong (character in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West); Monkey King |
| 初孫 | ういまご uimago | first grandchild |
| ひ孫 | ひまご himago | great-grandchild |
| 孫子 | そんし sonshi | Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist; 544?-496 BCE) |
| お孫さん | おまごさん omagosan | grandchild |
| 天孫 | てんそん tenson | descendant of a god; heavenly grandson |
| 玄孫 | げんそん genson | great-great-grandchild; fourth-generation descendant |
| 孫の手 | まごのて magonote | backscratcher |
| 子々孫々 | ししそんそん shishisonson | one's descendants; one's offspring; posterity |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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