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Kanji Detail for 孼 - "illegitimate, sprout, calamity"
孼
- Meaning
孼 means "illegitimate, sprout, calamity."
Illegitimate - A child born to a concubine.
Sprout - A shoot from a tree stump or root.
Calamity - A disaster; misfortune.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
misfortune; sin; evil
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
misfortune; sin, evil
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
variant of 孽[nie4]
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A concubine's son. Children born of maids and concubines are called 孼. (Mencius) "The solitary minister and concubine's son." Referring to children not favored by their parents. Ancients strictly distinguished between principal and concubine lines, considering concubine offspring as lowly. | Evil omens. Monstrous insects are called 孼. See (Book of Han, Treatise on the Five Elements). Now strange things are called 妖孼. | Evil causes. Such as 作孼, 造孼. Originally written as 業. This is the 業障 in Buddhist scriptures.
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