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U+500C, 倌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500C

[U+500B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+500D]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人十口口 (OJRR), four-corner 23277, composition)

  1. a boy in the employ of a teahouse, tavern, or restaurant; assistant in wine shop
  2. groom (keeper of domestic animals), herdsman

References

  • KangXi: page 107, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 759
  • Dae Jaweon: page 228, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 184, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+500C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*koːn
*koːn, *koːns
*koːn, *kroːns
*koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
*koːn, *koːns
*koːnʔ
*koːnʔ, *kuːns
*koːnʔ, *koːns
*koːnʔ
*koːnʔ, *koːns
*koːnʔ, *koːns
*koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
*koːns
*ɡoːns
*kroːn
*qroːnʔ, *qroːns
*qoːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (62) (70)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑn/ /kˠuanH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑn/ /kʷᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑn/ /kuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwan/ /kwaɨnH/
Li
Rong
/kuɑn/ /kuanH/
Wang
Li
/kuɑn/ /kwanH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑn/ /kwanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guān guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guān
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwænH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷˤra[n]-s/
English servant, groom

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. 4437 4458
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːn/ /*kroːns/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 倌人
  • 堂倌
  • 寶倌宝倌
  • 渾倌浑倌
  • 牛倌
  • 紅倌红倌

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: くわん (kuwan)
  • Kun: とねり (toneri)

Korean

Hanja

(gwan) (hangeul , revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(quan, quán)

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