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Translingual

Han character

(radical 124 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十十人尸一 (JJOSM), four-corner 48427)

  1. writing brush, pen, pencil

References

  • KangXi: page 958, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28780
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1405, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3353, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7FF0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːn, *ɡran
*kaːn
*kaːns
*kaːns
*ɡaːn
*ɡaːn
*ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*qʷaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns) : phonetic  (OC *kaːns) + semantic  (feather).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (33)
Final () (61) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑn/ /ɦɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑn/ /ɦɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦan/ /ɦanH/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hán hàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hàn hàn hàn hàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ hanH › ‹ hanH › ‹ hanH › ‹ hanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤar/ (MC implies *-s) /*[ɡ]ˤar-s/ /*[ɡ]ˤar-s/ /*m-kˤar-s/
English white (of a horse) pheasant; feather, wing high prop up, support

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 3704 3705
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːn/ /*ɡaːns/

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(han) (hangeul , revised han, McCune-Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hàn)

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