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管

管

Translingual

Han character

管 (radical 118 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口口 (HJRR), four-corner 88777, composition ⿱⺮官)

References

  • KangXi: page 889, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26162
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1316, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2986, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7BA1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 管

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (官) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
官 *koːn
棺 *koːn, *koːns
倌 *koːn, *kroːns
悹 *koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫 *koːn, *koːns
管 *koːnʔ
琯 *koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯 *koːnʔ, *koːns
輨 *koːnʔ
錧 *koːnʔ, *koːns
館 *koːnʔ, *koːns
婠 *koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺 *koːns
逭 *ɡoːns
菅 *kroːn
綰 *qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾 *qoːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 管
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古滿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwanX/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑnX/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 管 管 管
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guǎn guǎn guǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwanX › ‹ kwanX › ‹ kwanX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤo[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˤa[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˤa[n]ʔ/
English tube; flute exhausted, helpless helpless

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 管
Reading # 1/1
No. 4440
Phonetic
component		 官
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 管
Old
Chinese		 /*koːnʔ/

Noun

管

  1. pipe, tube, duct
    吸管  ―  xīguǎn  ―  straw
  2. (instrument) a cylindrical double reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood

Verb

管

  1. to manage, to control
    管理  ―  guǎnlǐ  ―  to manage

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

管

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

管 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan, historical hiragana くわん)

  1. pipe
  2. a wind instrument

管 ‎(hiragana くだ, romaji kuda)

  1. pipe

Korean

Hanja

管 • ‎(gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

管 (quản)

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