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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火手手 (FQQ), four-corner 90502, composition)

  1. fist
  2. various forms of boxing

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 428, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11996
  • Dae Jaweon: page 777, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1864, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+62F3

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qroːn, *qon, *qron
*ɡroːns
*kron, *krons
*kronʔ, *ɡrons, *kʰons
*krons
*krons
*krons, *kʰrons, *kons, *kʰons, *koɡ
*krons, *ɡron
*krons
*kʰron, *krons
*ɡron
*ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
*ɡron
*kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡron) : phonetic  + semantic  (hand) – a fist is a form of a hand.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡʷᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gwian/
Li
Rong
/ɡjuɛn/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
quán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
quán
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjwen ›
Old
Chinese
/*N-kro[n]/
English fist (< rolled-up hand)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7165
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡron/

Noun

  1. fist

Compounds

  • 拳壇拳坛
  • 拳套
  • 拳師拳师
  • 拳打 (quándǎ)
  • 拳打腳踢拳打脚踢
  • 拳拳

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ken, a game played with the hands; a game of hands; in Italian, mor(r)a, a game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.
  2. fist, usually as a suffix in the name of martial arts moves

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(gwon) (hangeul , revised gwon, McCune-Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

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Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(quyền, quèn, long, thành)

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