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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 75 +18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 木廿口土 (DTRG), four-corner 44914, composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 563, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15926
  • Dae Jaweon: page 951, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1319, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6B0A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*koːn, *koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns, *kroːns
*koːns, *qʰoːn
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*koːns
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn
*qʰoːn, *qʰon
*qʰoːns
*ɡron
*ɡron
*ɡron
*ɡron
*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
*kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡron) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *koːns).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
quán
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjwen ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ʷrar/
English weight of a steelyard

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4496
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡron/

Definitions

  1. power; authority
    /    quán   power; authority
  2. right; entitlement
    /    quán   right
    投票 / 投票   tóupiàoquán   right to vote

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwon)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: gwon, McCune-Reischauer: kwŏn, Yale: kwen)
  • Name (hangeul): 권세()
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Vietnamese

Han character

(quyền, quàn, dào)

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