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漢

漢

See also: 汉

Translingual

Shinjitai 漢
Simplified 汉
Traditional 漢

Han character

漢 (radical 85 水+11 in Chinese, 水+10 in Japanese, in Chinese 14 strokes, in Japanese 13 strokes, cangjie input 水廿中人 (ETLO), four-corner 34134, composition ⿰氵𦰩)

References

  • KangXi: page 646, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18068
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1055, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1713, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6F22

Chinese

trad. 漢
simp. 汉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 漢
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (暵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
儺 *naːl
臡 *naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
嘆 *n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
灘 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
擹 *n̥ʰaːn
攤 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
癱 *n̥ʰaːn
歎 *n̥ʰaːns
難 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
暵 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
熯 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
漢 *hnaːns
戁 *rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hnaːns) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 𦰩 – name of a river.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 漢
Mandarin Beijing /xan⁵¹/
Harbin /xan⁵³/
Tianjin /xan⁵³/
Jinan /xã²¹/
Qingdao /xã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xan³¹²/
Xi'an /xã⁴⁴/
Xining /xã²¹³/
Yinchuan /xan¹³/
Lanzhou /xɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /xan²¹³/
Wuhan /xan³⁵/
Chengdu /xan¹³/
Guiyang /xan²¹³/
Kunming /xã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /xaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /xæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /xæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /hø³⁵/
Suzhou /hø⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /hẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /ɕy⁴²/
Hui Shexian /xɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /xuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /xan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /xan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /hɵn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /hon⁵³/
Taoyuan /hon⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔn³³/
Nanning /hɔn³³/
Hong Kong /hɔn³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ham²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xuiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /haŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /haŋ³⁵/
/haŋ³³/ 俗
Rime
Character 漢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hanH/
Li
Rong		 /xɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /xɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 漢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*n̥ˤar-s/ (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-, *-r > *-n)
English (river name)

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 漢
Reading # 1/1
No. 4905
Phonetic
component		 暵
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 漢
Old
Chinese		 /*hnaːns/

Definitions

漢

  1. (～水) Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze
  2. (～江) Han River, the fourth-longest river on the Korean peninsula
  3. (～朝) Han Dynasty
  4. Chinese; Chinese people
  5. Chinese language
  6. man; guy; bloke
  7. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

漢

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. Sino-, China

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

漢 • ‎(han) (hangeul 한, McCune-Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

漢 (hán, háng, hớn)

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