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慣

慣

See also: 惯

Translingual

Han character

慣 (radical 61 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心田十金 (PWJC), four-corner 97086, composition ⿰忄貫)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 399, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11111
  • Dae Jaweon: page 739, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2349, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6163

Chinese

trad. 慣
simp. 惯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (毌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
毌 *koːn, *koːns
貫 *koːn, *koːns
樌 *koːns
鏆 *koːns
遦 *koːns
慣 *kroːns
摜 *kroːns
瑻 *kuːn
謴 *kuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːns) : semantic 忄 ‎(“heart”) + phonetic 貫 ‎(OC *koːn, *koːns) – habit is what one does by heart.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 慣
Mandarin Beijing /kuan⁵¹/
Harbin /kaun⁵³/
Tianjin /kuan⁵³/
Jinan /kuã²¹/
Qingdao /kuã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kuan³¹²/
Xi'an /kuã⁴⁴/
Xining /kuã²¹³/
Yinchuan /kuan¹³/
Lanzhou /kuɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /kuan²¹³/
Wuhan /kuan³⁵/
Chengdu /kuan¹³/
Guiyang /kuan²¹³/
Kunming /kuã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /kuaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /kʊ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kuæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kuɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /kuæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kue³⁵/
Suzhou /kue̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kuõ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /ka⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kuɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /kuːə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /kuan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kuan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kuan⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kuan⁵³/
Taoyuan /kuɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwan³³/
Nanning /kʷɛn³³/
Hong Kong /kwan³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kuan²¹/
/kuãi²¹/
/kuĩ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kuɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kuiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kuaŋ²¹³/
/kũi²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kuaŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 慣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 刪 (70)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古患切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠuanH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaɨnH/
Li
Rong		 /kuanH/
Wang
Li		 /kwanH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwænH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤro[n]-s/
English accustomed to

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 慣
Reading # 1/1
No. 4471
Phonetic
component		 毌
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 慣
Old
Chinese		 /*kroːns/
Notes 爾雅作貫，貫轉註字

Definitions

慣

  1. to be accustomed to; to be used to
  2. habit; custom
  3. habitually; usually
  4. to spoil; to overindulge

Compounds

  • 慣慣／惯惯
  • 慣手／惯手
  • 慣技／惯技
  • 慣熟／惯熟
  • 慣犯／惯犯 (guànfàn)
  • 慣用／惯用 (guànyòng)
  • 慣用語／惯用语 (guànyòngyǔ)
  • 慣甲／惯甲
  • 慣竊／惯窃
  • 慣縱／惯纵
  • 慣習／惯习 (guànxí)
  • 慣落／惯落
  • 慣行犯／惯行犯
  • 慣賊／惯贼
  • 慣養嬌生／惯养娇生
  • 打破慣例／打破惯例
  • 熟慣／熟惯
  • 牢成久慣／牢成久惯
  • 生活習慣／生活习惯
  • 看不慣／看不惯 (kànbùguàn)
  • 看慣／看惯
  • 瞧不慣／瞧不惯
  • 習慣／习惯 (xíguàn)
  • 習慣性／习惯性
  • 習慣法／习惯法
  • 老習慣／老习惯
  • 能言慣道／能言惯道
  • 能說慣道／能说惯道
  • 見慣不驚／见惯不惊
  • 見慣司空／见惯司空
  • 風俗習慣／风俗习惯 (fēngsú xíguàn)

Japanese

Kanji

慣

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. accustomed

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

慣 • ‎(gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慣 (quen, quán)

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