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Translingual

Han character

(radical 195 +10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田中水 (NFWLE) or 弓火田中火 (NFWLF), four-corner 26333)

  1. huge fish
  2. widower
  3. bachelor

References

  • KangXi: page 1475, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46382
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4706, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9C25

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡruːl, *ɡruːl
*kruːn
*kruːns
*l̥ʰuːb
*l'uːb
*l'uːb

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (74) (74)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () II II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠuɛn/ /kˠuɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷᵚæn/ /kʷᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuæn/ /kuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwəɨn/ /kwəɨnH/
Li
Rong
/kuɛn/ /kuɛnH/
Wang
Li
/kwæn/ /kwænH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kwăn/ /kwănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guān guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guān guān
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwɛn › ‹ kwɛn ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ʷˤrə[n]/ /*[k]ʷˤrə[n]/
English widower a kind of fish

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. 1951
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kruːn/

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

(hwan) (hangeul , revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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