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Translingual

Han character

(radical 145 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十廿金女 (JTCV), four-corner 30732, composition𡨄)

  1. underclothing
  2. to pick up one's skirts

References

  • KangXi: page 1122, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34513
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1590, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3106, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8930

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡaːn
*kranʔ, *kanʔ
*kranʔ
*kranʔ, *kʰran
*kranʔ
*kʰran
*kʰran
*kʰran
*ɡranʔ
*ɡanʔ
*qʰan

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (79)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰiæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰian/
Li
Rong
/kʰjɛn/
Wang
Li
/kʰĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qiān
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjen ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʰra[n]/
English trousers; lift up (a garment)

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. 4876
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰran/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 褰裳

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to pull up (raise a garment covering the lower half of the body)

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(geon) (hangeul , revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn, Yale ken)

  1. (clothing) roll up
  2. outspread
  3. open up
  4. baggy trousers worn by Koreans

Vietnamese

Han character

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References