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券

券

券 U+5238, 券
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5238
← 刷
[U+5237] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 刹 →
[U+5239]
See also: 劵

Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

券 (radical 18 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火手尸竹 (FQSH), four-corner 90227, composition ⿱𠔉刀)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 139, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1966
  • Dae Jaweon: page 316, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 332, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5238

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 券
alt. forms 劵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (龹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
潫 *qroːn, *qon, *qron
豢 *ɡroːns
勬 *kron, *krons
韏 *kronʔ, *ɡrons, *kʰons
眷 *krons
桊 *krons
絭 *krons, *kʰrons, *kons, *kʰons, *koɡ
觠 *krons, *ɡron
飬 *krons
弮 *kʰron, *krons
拳 *ɡron
卷 *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
齤 *ɡron
券 *kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰons) : phonetic 𠔉 + semantic 刀.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 券
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去願切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰiuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰuanH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰiuɐnH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 quàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 券
Reading # 1/1
No. 7173
Phonetic
component
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 劵
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰons/

Definitions

券

  1. (historical) title deeds; deed of trust; bond
  2. ticket; pass; coupon; voucher; certificate
    入場券 / 入场券  ―  rùchǎngquàn  ―  admission ticket
  3. †(figuratively) guarantee; surety; certainty
  4. † to agree; to tally with
  5. † to copy; to trace
  6. † to bore; to drill
  7. †Alternative form of 倦 (juàn, “tired; weary”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

券

  1. (architecture) arch (on bridges, doors, windows)
    拱券  ―  gǒngxuàn  ―  arch

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

券

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
券
けん
Grade: 5
on'yomi

/kwen/ → /ken/

From Middle Chinese ticket ‎(khwenH?).

Pronunciation

Noun

券 ‎(hiragana けん, romaji ken, historical hiragana くゑん)

  1. ticket, certificate
  2. bond, coupon

Suffix

券 ‎(hiragana けん, romaji -ken, historical hiragana くゑん)

  1. ticket, certificate

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

券 • ‎(gwon) (hangeul 권, McCune-Reischauer kwŏn)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

券 (khoán)

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