【析形】形声字。小篆字形从男,生声。古文字形初写作“生”,后增加意符男后为形声字“甥”。 【释义】《说文》:“谓我舅者,吾谓之甥也。”指姐姐或妹妹的子女,与“舅”相对。 【shape analysis】It is the pictophonetic character.The meaningful part is男(nán,male)and the phonetic component is生(shēng). In ancient character it first was written as 生 and later it was added the meaningful part as a pictophonetic character甥. 【original meaning】 The sister's children, opposite to 舅.