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Translingual

Han character

(radical 196 +18, 29 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹日火 (TGHAF), four-corner 47227)

References

  • KangXi: page 1504, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47500
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2034, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4670, character 22
  • Unihan data for U+9E1B

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*koːn, *koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns, *kroːns
*koːns, *qʰoːn
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn, *qʰon
*qʰoːns
*ɡron
*ɡron
*ɡron
*ɡron
*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
*kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːns) : phonetic  (OC *koːns) + semantic  (bird).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwanH/
Li
Rong
/kuɑnH/
Wang
Li
/kuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.qʷˤar-s/
English heron

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. 4479
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːns/
Notes

Definitions

  1. crane (Grus japonensis)
  2. stork

Compounds

  • 鸛雀樓鹳雀楼
  • 鸛骨鹳骨

Japanese

鸛 (kōnotori)

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
こうのとり
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

(, swan) + (no, 's) + (tori, bird)

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana こうのとり, katakana コウノトリ, romaji kōnotori, historical hiragana こふのとり)

  1. Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana)

Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(gwan) (hangeul , revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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