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倌

倌

倌 U+500C, 倌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500C
← 個
[U+500B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倍 →
[U+500D]

Translingual

Han character

倌 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人十口口 (OJRR), four-corner 23277, composition ⿰亻官)

  1. a boy in the employ of a teahouse, tavern, or restaurant; assistant in wine shop
  2. groom (keeper of domestic animals), herdsman

References

  • KangXi: page 107, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 759
  • Dae Jaweon: page 228, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 184, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+500C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 倌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倌
Small seal script

s05818
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (官) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
官 *koːn
棺 *koːn, *koːns
倌 *koːn, *kroːns
悹 *koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫 *koːn, *koːns
管 *koːnʔ
琯 *koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯 *koːnʔ, *koːns
輨 *koːnʔ
錧 *koːnʔ, *koːns
館 *koːnʔ, *koːns
婠 *koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺 *koːns
逭 *ɡoːns
菅 *kroːn
綰 *qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾 *qoːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 倌 倌
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62) 刪 (70)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 古丸切 古患切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuɑn/ /kˠuanH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑn/ /kʷᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑn/ /kuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwan/ /kwaɨnH/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑn/ /kuanH/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑn/ /kwanH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuɑn/ /kwanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guān guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwænH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤra[n]-s/
English servant, groom

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 倌 倌
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4437 4458
Phonetic
component		 官 官
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 官 慣
Old
Chinese		 /*koːn/ /*kroːns/

Definitions

倌

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Compounds

  • 倌人
  • 堂倌
  • 寶倌／宝倌
  • 渾倌／浑倌
  • 牛倌
  • 紅倌／红倌

Japanese

Kanji

倌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: くわん (kuwan)
  • Kun: とねり (toneri)

Korean

Hanja

倌 • ‎(gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倌 (quan, quán)

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