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拳

拳

See also: 挙

Translingual

Han character

拳 (radical 64 手+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火手手 (FQQ), four-corner 90502, composition ⿱龹手)

  1. fist
  2. various forms of boxing

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 428, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11996
  • Dae Jaweon: page 777, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1864, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+62F3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 拳

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 *ɡron) : phonetic 龹 + semantic 手 ‎(“hand”) – a fist is a form of a hand.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 拳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 巨員切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡʷᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gwian/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 quán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 拳
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 quán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-kro[n]/
English fist (< rolled-up hand)

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 拳
Reading # 1/1
No. 7165
Phonetic
component
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 權
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡron/

Noun

拳

  1. fist

Compounds

  • 拳壇／拳坛
  • 拳套
  • 拳師／拳师
  • 拳打 (quándǎ)
  • 拳打腳踢／拳打脚踢
  • 拳拳

References

Japanese

Kanji

拳

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ken, a game played with the hands; a game of hands; in Italian, mor(r)a, a game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.
  2. fist, usually as a suffix in the name of martial arts moves

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

拳 • ‎(gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune-Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

拳 (quyền, quèn, long, thành)

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