Definify.com
Definition 2025
柬
柬
See also: 東
Translingual
Han character
柬 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木田火 (DWF), four-corner 50906)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 520, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14655
- Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1179, character 4
- Unihan data for U+67EC
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
柬 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 柬
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 蘭 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 攔 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 欄 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 瀾 | *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːns |
| 讕 | *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns |
| 闌 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 韊 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 幱 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 籣 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 躝 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 爛 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 爤 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 鑭 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 糷 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 斕 | *ɡr·reːn |
| 揀 | *kreːnʔ, *ɡ·reːns |
| 柬 | *kreːnʔ |
| 暕 | *kreːnʔ |
| 諫 | *kraːns |
| 練 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 鍊 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 煉 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 楝 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 萰 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 堜 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 湅 | *ɡ·reːns |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 束 (“tie”) + 八 (“individually”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˇ
- Wade-Giles: chien3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jean
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gaan2
- Yale: gáan
- Cantonese Pinyin: gaan2
- IPA (key): /kɑːn³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kán
- Tâi-lô: kán
- Phofsit Daibuun: karn
- IPA (Xiamen): /kan⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kan⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kan⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kan⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kan⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 柬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 山 (73) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 古限切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠɛnX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kᵚænX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kænX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kəɨnX/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɛnX/ |
| Wang Li |
/kænX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kănX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jiǎn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 柬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jiǎn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kɛnX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kˤr[a]nʔ/ |
| English | select, distinguish |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 柬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6138 |
| Phonetic component |
柬 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
簡 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kreːnʔ/ |
| Notes | 揀初文 |
Definitions
柬
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
柬
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.
Readings
Korean
Hanja
柬 • (gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan, Yale kan)
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.
Vietnamese
Han character
柬 (giản)
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.