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坤
坤
Translingual
Han character
坤 (radical 32 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土中田中 (GLWL), four-corner 45106, composition ⿰土申)
References
- KangXi: page 226, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4969
- Dae Jaweon: page 461, character 28
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 431, character 7
- Unihan data for U+5764
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
坤 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣ
- Wade-Giles: k'un1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuen
- IPA (key): /kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: kwan1
- Yale: kwān
- Cantonese Pinyin: kwan1
- IPA (key): /kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 坤 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /kʰuən⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /kʰuən⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /kʰuən²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /kʰuẽ²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /kʰuə̃²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /kʰuən²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /kʰuẽ²¹/ | |
| Xining | /kʰuə̃⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /kʰuŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /kʰũn³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /kʰuŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /kʰuən⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /kʰuən⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /kʰuen⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /kʰuə̃/ | |
| Nanjing | /kʰun³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /kʰuən²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /kʰuəŋ¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /kʰuŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /kʰũŋ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /kʰuəŋ⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /kʰuən⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /kʰun³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /kʰaŋ³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /kʰuʌ̃³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /kʰuɛ¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /kʰuən³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /kʰuən³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /kʰun⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /kʰun⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /kʰun²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /kʰwɐn⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /kʰʷɐn⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /kʰwɐn⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /kʰun⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kʰuŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /kʰɔŋ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kʰuŋ³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /xun²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 坤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 魂 (55) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 苦昆切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kʰuən/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kʰuon/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kʰuən/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kʰwən/ |
| Li Rong |
/kʰuən/ |
| Wang Li |
/kʰuən/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kʰuən/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
kūn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 坤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
kūn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ khwon › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[kʰ]ˤu[n]/ |
| English | earth (trigram or hexagram) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 坤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7518 |
| Phonetic component |
坤 |
| Rime group |
文 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
坤 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰuːn/ |
Definitions
坤
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
坤
Readings
Noun
坤 (hiragana ひつじさる, romaji hitsujisaru)
- (obsolete) southwest
Korean
Hanja
坤 • (gon) (hangeul 곤, revised gon, McCune-Reischauer kon)
- (땅 곤, ttang-) earth
- (곤괘 곤, gongwae-) ☷ or the eighth of the Eight Trigrams, (☰☱☲☳☴☵☶☷ or 팔괘 (八卦, palgwae)) that exactly match with the three-digit binary numbers, counting from 0 to 7. Four (0, 2, 5, 7) out of eight trigrams are placed in the four corners of the flag of South Korea.
- (황후 곤, hwanghu-) queen
Antonyms
Synonyms
Compounds
- 乾坤 (건곤, geongon) heaven and earth, yin and yang
- 坤卦 (곤괘, gongwae) the 8th of the Eight Trigrams
- 坤殿 (곤전, gonjeon) Her Majesty
- 坤極 (곤극, gongeuk) Her Majesty
Vietnamese
Han character
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