両親

See also: 两亲

Japanese

Kanji in this term
両	親
りょう Grade: 3	しん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
兩親 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) りょーしん [ryóꜜòshìǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɾʲo̞ːɕĩɴ]

Noun

両(りょう)親(しん) • (ryōshin) ^{←りやうしん (ryausin)^?}

both parents

Synonyms

ご両親(りょうしん) (goryōshin), 御両親(ごりょうしん) (goryōshin) (polite)
親(おや) (oya) (informal)

Coordinate terms

片親(かたおや) (kataoya, “one parent”)

References

Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“両親”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026