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簡
簡
See also: 简
Translingual
Han character
簡 (radical 118 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹日弓日 (HANA), four-corner 88227, composition ⿱⺮間)
Derived characters
- 𨰝
References
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 901, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26520
- Dae Jaweon: page 1325, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3017, character 15
- Unihan data for U+7C21
Chinese
| trad. | 簡 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 简 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (閒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 間 | *kreːn, *kreːns |
| 簡 | *kreːnʔ |
| 澗 | *kreːns, *kraːns |
| 鐧 | *kreːns, *kraːns |
| 蕑 | *kreːn |
| 覵 | *kreːn, *kreːns, *pkrenʔ |
| 襉 | *kreːnʔ, *kreːns |
| 僩 | *kreːnʔ, *ɡraːnʔ |
| 鬜 | *kʰreːn, *kʰraːn, *kʰreːd |
| 癇 | *ɡreːn |
| 瞯 | *ɡreːn |
| 憪 | *ɡreːn, *ɡraːnʔ |
| 橌 | *ɡraːnʔ |
| 撊 | *ɡraːnʔ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˇ
- Wade-Giles: chien3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jean
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gaan2
- Yale: gáan
- Cantonese Pinyin: gaan2
- IPA (key): /kɑːn³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kán
- Tâi-lô: kán
- Phofsit Daibuun: karn
- IPA (Xiamen): /kan⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kan⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kan⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kan⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kan⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 簡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 山 (73) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 古限切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠɛnX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kᵚænX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kænX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kəɨnX/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɛnX/ |
| Wang Li |
/kænX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kănX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jiǎn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 簡 | 簡 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jiǎn | jiǎn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kɛnX › | ‹ kɛnX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kˤre[n]ʔ/ | /*kˤre[n]ʔ/ |
| English | bamboo slip for writing | select, large-minded, etc. |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 簡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6227 |
| Phonetic component |
閒 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
簡 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kreːnʔ/ |
Definitions
簡
Compounds
References
- “Query for 簡”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
簡
Readings
- Goon: けん (ken) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: かん (kan)
- Kun: ふだ (fuda) (non-Jōyō reading), えらぶ (erabu) (non-Jōyō reading)
Korean
Hanja
簡 • (gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan, Yale kan)
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Vietnamese
Han character
簡 (giản, dẳng, dớn, giỡn, nhởn, dần, dẵng, giảm, giằn)
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