孫 means “grandchild”

まご · mago

Also: descendants

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

まご

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ソン

Taught in grade 4 · 10 strokes

The story

Child (子) connected by a thread (糸) of lineage: the grandchild is the family line continuing forward. In Japan, grandparents and grandchildren share a special bond called 孫の手 (mago no te, "grandchild's hand"), a back-scratcher shaped like a tiny reaching hand.

Used in 孫娘 (magomusume, granddaughter) and 子孫 (shison, descendants)

Words with 孫

• 子孫 (しそん, shison): descendants

Example sentences

• 孫が遊びに来ました。 My grandchild came to visit.
• 子孫に伝えたい話があります。 There is a story I want to pass down to my descendants.

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.