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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手日一十 (QAMJ), four-corner 56041, composition)

  1. ward off, guard against, defend

References

  • KangXi: page 433, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12143
  • Dae Jaweon: page 783, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1881, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+634D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krads, *krads, *ked, *kad
*kaːn
竿 *kaːn
*kaːn
*kaːn
*kaːn
*kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
*kaːn
*kaːn, *ɡaːns
*kaːn
*kaːn, *ɡaːn
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːns
*kaːns
*kaːns
*kaːns
*kaːns, *ɡraːns
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kʰaːn
*kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan
*kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns
*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns
*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̥ʰraːn
*ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
*ŋɡaːns
*qʰaːn, *ɢaːns
*qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns
*qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns
*qʰaːnʔ
*ɡaːn
*ɡaːnʔ
*ɡaːnʔ
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns, *kʰraːn
*ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡʷranʔ
*ɡraːns
*kan
*ɡan, *ɡʷad
*qʰan
*qʰan
*qʰaːŋʔ
*ɡʷaːnʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (33)
Final () (69) (61)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠanX/ /ɦɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦᵚanX/ /ɦɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɐnX/ /ɣɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaɨnX/ /ɦanH/
Li
Rong
/ɣanX/ /ɣɑnH/
Wang
Li
/ɣanX/ /ɣɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣanX/ /ɣɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiàn hàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ hanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-kˤa[r]-s/
English ward off; protect, guard

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. 3625 3634
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːns/ /*ɡraːnʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 捍債捍债
  • 捍禦捍御
  • 蹌捍跄捍

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

(cản, hãn)

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