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Translingual

Character 案

Han character

(radical 75 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十女木 (JVD), four-corner 30904, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 525, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14762
  • Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1207, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6848

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns, *qraːns
*qraːns
*qraːns
*qraːns
*qaːd
*qaːd
*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qaːns) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *qaːn).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔanH/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑnH/
Wang
Li
/ɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
àn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
àn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔˤa[n]-s/
English stool; tray

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 # 1/1
No. 16
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaːns/

Noun

  1. table; desk
  2. law case; case
  3. record; file
  4. a plan submitted for consideration; a proposal

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term
あん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Noun

(hiragana あん, romaji an)

  1. plan

(hiragana つくえ, romaji tsukue)

  1. Alternative form of

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(án)

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