亲
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parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 亠 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 親
- Common rank
- #414
- Unicode
- U+4EB2
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 亲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亲自动手 | to do the job oneself | |
| 亲水性 | hydrophilic | |
| 亲如一家 | family-like close relationship (idiom) | |
| 亲生子女 | natural child | |
| 亲家公 | father of one's child's spouse | |
| 亲和性 | compatibility; affinity (biology) | |
| 亲子 | parent and child; parent-child (relationship); two successive generations | |
| 亲人 | one's close relatives | |
| 亲和力 | (personal) warmth; approachability; accessibility; (in a product) user friendliness; (chem… | |
| 亲生 | one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth); biological (parents); birth (parents) | |
| 天亲 | one's flesh and blood | |
| 亲自 | personally; in person; oneself | |
| 家亲 | older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents); one's deceased clo… | |
| 亲家 | parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law; relatives by marriage | |
| 亲手 | with one's own hands; personally | |
| 相亲角 | "matchmaking corner", a gathering in a park for parents who seek marriage partners for the… | |
| 相亲相爱 | (idiom) (of siblings, spouses etc) very close to each other; inseparable; devoted to each … | |
| 手足亲情 | brotherly kindness | |
| 亲口 | one's own mouth; fig. in one's own words; to say sth personally | |
| 亲事 | marriage; CL:門|门[men2] |
Sound family
These characters use 亲 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亲 sound part | relatives, parents; intimate; the hazelnut tree | |
| 榇 | coffin; tung tree |