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桿
桿
See also: 杆
Translingual
Han character
桿 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木日一十 (DAMJ), four-corner 46941, composition ⿰木旱)
References
- KangXi: page 527, character 23
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14823
- Dae Jaweon: page 916, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1213, character 2
- Unihan data for U+687F
Chinese
| trad. | 桿 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 杆 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (干) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 訐 | *krads, *krads, *ked, *kad |
| 肝 | *kaːn |
| 竿 | *kaːn |
| 干 | *kaːn |
| 奸 | *kaːn |
| 玕 | *kaːn |
| 汗 | *kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns |
| 迀 | *kaːn |
| 忓 | *kaːn, *ɡaːns |
| 鳱 | *kaːn |
| 邗 | *kaːn, *ɡaːn |
| 秆 | *kaːnʔ |
| 矸 | *kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns |
| 仠 | *kaːnʔ |
| 皯 | *kaːnʔ |
| 衦 | *kaːnʔ |
| 簳 | *kaːnʔ |
| 擀 | *kaːnʔ |
| 旰 | *kaːns |
| 盰 | *kaːns |
| 幹 | *kaːns |
| 杆 | *kaːns |
| 骭 | *kaːns, *ɡraːns |
| 桿 | *kaːnʔ |
| 趕 | *kaːnʔ |
| 稈 | *kaːnʔ |
| 刊 | *kʰaːn |
| 靬 | *kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan |
| 衎 | *kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns |
| 犴 | *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns |
| 豻 | *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̥ʰraːn |
| 頇 | *ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd |
| 岸 | *ŋɡaːns |
| 鼾 | *qʰaːn, *ɢaːns |
| 罕 | *qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns |
| 焊 | *qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns |
| 蔊 | *qʰaːnʔ |
| 虷 | *ɡaːn |
| 旱 | *ɡaːnʔ |
| 皔 | *ɡaːnʔ |
| 釬 | *ɡaːns |
| 扞 | *ɡaːns |
| 閈 | *ɡaːns |
| 馯 | *ɡaːns, *kʰraːn |
| 捍 | *ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ |
| 悍 | *ɡaːns |
| 銲 | *ɡaːns |
| 垾 | *ɡaːns |
| 駻 | *ɡaːns |
| 睅 | *ɡʷranʔ |
| 娨 | *ɡraːns |
| 飦 | *kan |
| 赶 | *ɡan, *ɡʷad |
| 軒 | *qʰan |
| 蓒 | *qʰan |
| 酐 | *qʰaːŋʔ |
| 澣 | *ɡʷaːnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaːnʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 旱 (OC *ɡaːnʔ).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇ
- Wade-Giles: kan3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaan
- IPA (key): /ka̠n²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇㄦ
- Wade-Giles: kanrh3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaal
- IPA (key): /kɑɻ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gon1, gon2, gon3
- Yale: gōn, gón, gon
- Cantonese Pinyin: gon1, gon2, gon3
- IPA (key): /kɔːn⁵⁵/, /kɔːn³⁵/, /kɔːn³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: koe (T2)
- IPA (key): /kø³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
Definitions
桿
- pole; stick; club; rod
- lever; handle
- shaft; barrel
- 槍桿 / 枪杆 ― qiānggǎn ― gun barrel
- Classifier for long, cylindrical objects, such as guns.
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
桿
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
桿 • (han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune-Reischauer han, Yale han)
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Vietnamese
Han character
桿 (cán)
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