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鰥

鰥

See also: 鳏

Translingual

Han character

鰥 (radical 195 魚+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田中水 (NFWLE) or 弓火田中火 (NFWLF), four-corner 2633₃)

huge fish
widower
bachelor

References

KangXi: page 1475, character 40

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46382

Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 25

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4706, character 9

Unihan data for U+9C25

Chinese

trad.		鰥
simp.		鳏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (眔) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
褱	ɡruːl, ɡruːl
鰥	*kruːn
鳏	*kruːns
嚃	*l̥ʰuːb
眔	*l'uːb
遝	*l'uːb

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): guān (guan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: guān
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ
  - Wade-Giles: kuan¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guan
  - IPA ^(key): /ku̯a̠n⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwaan¹
  - Yale: gwāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwaan¹
  - IPA ^(key): /kʷɑːn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /kˠuɛn/, /kˠuɛn^H/▼

Rime
Character	鰥	鰥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	山 (74)	山 (74)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	古頑切	古幻切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛn/	/kˠuɛn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæn/	/kʷᵚæn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæn/	/kuæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwəɨn/	/kwəɨn^H/
Li Rong	/kuɛn/	/kuɛn^H/
Wang Li	/kwæn/	/kwæn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwăn/	/kwăn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guān	guàn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤrə[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*kruːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鰥	鰥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guān	guān
Middle Chinese	‹ kwɛn ›	‹ kwɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷˤrə[n]/	/*[k]ʷˤrə[n]/
English	widower	a kind of fish
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	鰥
Reading #	1/1
No.	1951
Phonetic component	眔
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鰥
Old Chinese	/*kruːn/

Definitions

鰥

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Japanese

Kanji

鰥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: かん (kan), こん (kon)

Kun: やもお (yamoo), やむ (yamu)

Korean

Hanja

鰥 • ‎(hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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