社會

See also: 社会

Chinese

soil god; ceremony for offering to the soil god
 
to meet; to gather; group; to assemble; association; be able to; be likely to; to balance an account; accounting
trad. (社會) 社 會
simp. (社会) 社 会
anagram 會社／会社

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 社 (しゃ)会 (かい) (shakai, “society”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 社會／社会 (“public gathering for offering to the earth god”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 社 會
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麻 (100) 泰 (26)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 常者切 黃外切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɦuɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɦʷɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑiaX/ /ɦwajH/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiaX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭaX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯aX/ /ɣuɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shè huì

Noun

社會

  1. society (aggregate of people living together); community
    理想社會 / 理想社会  ―  lǐxiǎng shèhuì  ―  ideal society
    社會秩序 / 社会秩序  ―  shèhuì zhìxù  ―  social order
    社會名人 / 社会名人  ―  shèhuì míngrén  ―  public figure
    回饋社會 / 回馈社会  ―  huíkuì shèhuì  ―  to give back to society
    服務社會 / 服务社会  ―  fúwù shèhuì  ―  to serve the community
    社會經濟發展 / 社会经济发展  ―  shèhuì jīngjì fāzhǎn  ―  socio-economic development
    半殖民地半封建社會 [MSC, trad.]
    半殖民地半封建社会 [MSC, simp.]
    bànzhímíndì bànfēngjiàn shèhuì [Pinyin]
    semicolonial and semifeudal society
  2. class (world of a certain group of people)
  3. (archaic) public gathering for offering to the earth god

Usage notes

Use 社會／社会 when referring to society as an "aggregate of people living together". When society in the sense of "organization or club" is meant, use 社團／社团 (shètuán) or 協會／协会 (xiéhuì).

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (社會):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
社 會
しゃ
Grade: 2		 かい
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

社會 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 社会, hiragana しゃかい, rōmaji shakai)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 社会 (“society”)

Korean

Hanja in this term
社會

Noun

社會 • (sahoe) (hangeul 사회)

  1. Hanja form? of 사회 (“society”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
社會

Noun

社會

  1. Hán tự form of xã hội, “society”
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