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勘
勘
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Translingual
Han character
勘 (radical 19 力+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿女大尸 (TVKS), four-corner 44727, composition ⿰甚力)
References
- KangXi: page 148, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2393
- Dae Jaweon: page 334, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 373, character 18
- Unihan data for U+52D8
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
勘 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 勘
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| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (甚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 湛 | *ʔl'uːm, *r'uːmʔ, *l'um |
| 媅 | *ʔl'uːm |
| 黮 | *l̥ʰuːmʔ, *l'uːmʔ |
| 糂 | *sluːmʔ |
| 堪 | *kʰluːm |
| 戡 | *kʰluːm, *ʔl'umʔ |
| 嵁 | *kʰluːm, *ŋɡluːm, *ŋɡluːmʔ, *sɡruːmʔ, *kʰruːm |
| 歁 | *kʰluːmʔ, *kʰluːb |
| 勘 | *kʰluːms |
| 磡 | *kʰuːms |
| 墈 | *kʰuːms |
| 偡 | *r'uːmʔ |
| 碪 | *ʔl'um |
| 椹 | *ʔl'um |
| 揕 | *ʔl'ums |
| 踸 | *l̥ʰumʔ |
| 鍖 | *l̥ʰumʔ |
| 斟 | *kljum |
| 諶 | *ɡljum |
| 愖 | *ɡljum |
| 瘎 | *ɡljum |
| 煁 | *ɡljum |
| 甚 | *ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums |
| 葚 | *ɦljumʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰluːms) : semantic 力 (“strong”) + phonetic 甚 (OC *ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums) – to look at carefully, strongly.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄢ
- Wade-Giles: k'an1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kan
- IPA (key): /kʰa̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ham3, ham1
- Yale: ham, hām
- Cantonese Pinyin: ham3, ham1
- IPA (key): /hɐm³³/, /hɐm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khàm
- Tâi-lô: khàm
- Phofsit Daibuun: qaxm
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰam²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰam⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰam²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰam¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰam²¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 勘 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 苦紺切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kʰʌmH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kʰəmH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kʰɒmH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kʰəmH/ |
| Li Rong |
/kʰᴀmH/ |
| Wang Li |
/kʰɒmH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kʰămH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
kàn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 勘 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11275 |
| Phonetic component |
甚 |
| Rime group |
侵 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
勘 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰluːms/ |
Definitions
勘
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Compounds
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References
Japanese
Kanji
勘
Readings
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 勘 |
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かん Grade: S |
| on'yomi |
- 勘定 (kanjō): bill, check
Noun
Korean
Hanja
勘 • (gam) (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune-Reischauer kam)
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