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nān
  1. 1.variant of 囡[nān]
jiǎn
  1. 1.child

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  1. 1.son
  2. 2.child
  3. 3.baby, infant
  4. 4.Diminutive suffix attached to nouns, equivalent to Mandarin 子 (zǐ).
  5. 5.Diminutive suffix attached to classifiers.

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 囗 + 子 (“child; son”). Compare 囡. Min dialectal word for “son; child”. Substrate borrowing, cognate with Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun (“child, son”) (Vietnamese con, Khmer កូន (koun)) (Schuessler, 2007). Likely related to 昆 (OC *kuːn, “descendants”) (ibid.).

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