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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水日弓日 (EANA), four-corner 37120, composition)

  1. brook, mountain stream
  2. 1036

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 652, character 32
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1060, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 8 (in addendum), page 24, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+6F97

See also

  • Chinese numeral

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kreːn, *kreːns
*kreːnʔ
*kreːns, *kraːns
*kreːns, *kraːns
*kreːn
*kreːn, *kreːns, *pkrenʔ
*kreːnʔ, *kreːns
*kreːnʔ, *ɡraːnʔ
*kʰreːn, *kʰraːn, *kʰreːd
*ɡreːn
*ɡreːn
*ɡreːn, *ɡraːnʔ
*ɡraːnʔ
*ɡraːnʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (69)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠanH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨnH/
Li
Rong
/kanH/
Wang
Li
/kanH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kænH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤra[n]-s/ (rhymes as if *[k]ˤra[n])
English stream in a ravine

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. 6229 6231
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːns/ /*kraːns/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 山澗山涧 (shānjiàn)
  • 林慚澗愧林惭涧愧
  • 深澗深涧
  • 溝澗沟涧
  • 溪澗溪涧
  • 澗壑涧壑
  • 澗溝涧沟
  • 西澗西涧
  • 餐松飲澗餐松饮涧

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Number

(hiragana かん, romaji kan)

  1. A number of 1036 in modern Japanese since 17th century.

Korean

Hanja

(gan)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: gan, McCune-Reischauer: kan, Yale: kan)
  • Name (hangeul): 산골물()
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Vietnamese

Han character

(giản)

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References