子爵

Chinese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Pronunciation

Noun

子爵

  1. viscount

Synonyms

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (子爵):
  • → Japanese: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Korean: 자작(子爵) (jajak)
  • → Vietnamese: tử tước (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

Japanese
Kanji in this term
子 爵
し
Grade: 1		 しゃく
Grade: S
kan’on

Etymology

子 (“Chinese scholar; viscount”) +‎ 爵 (“nobility title”). Originally, the fourth highest among the 五等爵 (Gotōshaku, “Five Ranks”) in China under the Zhou dynasty. Used as an equivalent to the concept of the European "viscount" after the Meiji Restoration, during the establishment of a new peerage system called 華族 (Kazoku).

Pronunciation

Noun

子(し)爵(しゃく) • (shishaku) ←ししやく (sisyaku)?

  1. viscount

See also

References
  1. 2011, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Seventh Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
子爵

Noun

子爵 • (jajak) (hangeul 자작)

  1. Hanja form? of 자작 (“viscount”).

Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
子爵

Noun

子爵

  1. chữ Hán form of tử tước (“viscount”).
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