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勸

勸

勸 U+52F8, 勸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52F8
← 勷
[U+52F7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 勹 →
[U+52F9]
See also: 勧 and 劝

Translingual

Traditional 勸
Shinjitai 勧
Simplified 劝

Han character

勸 (radical 19 力+17, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿土大尸 (TGKS), four-corner 44227, composition ⿰雚力)

  1. recommend, advise, urge

References

  • KangXi: page 150, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2486
  • Dae Jaweon: page 338, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 382, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+52F8

Chinese

trad. 勸
simp. 劝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (雚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觀 *koːn, *koːns
灌 *koːns
鸛 *koːns
瓘 *koːns
矔 *koːns, *kroːns
懽 *koːns, *qʰoːn
爟 *koːns
雚 *koːns
罐 *koːns
鑵 *koːns
歡 *qʰoːn
驩 *qʰoːn
貛 *qʰoːn
酄 *qʰoːn
獾 *qʰoːn
讙 *qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾 *qʰoːns
權 *ɡron
顴 *ɡron
孉 *ɡron
蠸 *ɡron
虇 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸 *kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰons) : phonetic 雚 ‎(OC *koːns) + semantic 力 ‎(“strength”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 勸
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 勸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 quàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjwonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qʷʰar-s/
English encourage

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 勸
Reading # 1/1
No. 4501
Phonetic
component		 雚
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 劵
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰons/

Definitions

勸

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

勸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 勧)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

勸 • ‎(gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune-Reischauer kwŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勸 (khuyến, khuyên)

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