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Kanji Detail for 孺 - "infant, young, yearn"
孺
- Meaning
孺 means "infant, young, yearn."
Infant - A baby; a nursing child.
Young - Immature; childish.
Yearn - To long for; to admire.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
child
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
child; blood relation; affection
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Ru
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
child; blood relation; affection
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Young children. Such as 婦孺, meaning women and children. | Belonging to. A senior official's wife is called 孺人, meaning she belongs to her husband and doesn't act independently. See (Book of Rites, Quli). Later, wives were generally called 孺人. As in Jiang Yan's rhapsody "facing his wife on the left, looking at his children on the right." From Song onward, it became a title for noble ladies.
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