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竿

竿

Translingual

Han character

竿 (radical 118 竹+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹一十 (HMJ), four-corner 88401)

References

  • KangXi: page 878, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25854
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2948, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7AFF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 竿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (干) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
訐 *krads, *krads, *ked, *kad
肝 *kaːn
竿 *kaːn
干 *kaːn
奸 *kaːn
玕 *kaːn
汗 *kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
迀 *kaːn
忓 *kaːn, *ɡaːns
鳱 *kaːn
邗 *kaːn, *ɡaːn
秆 *kaːnʔ
矸 *kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns
仠 *kaːnʔ
皯 *kaːnʔ
衦 *kaːnʔ
簳 *kaːnʔ
擀 *kaːnʔ
旰 *kaːns
盰 *kaːns
幹 *kaːns
杆 *kaːns
骭 *kaːns, *ɡraːns
桿 *kaːnʔ
趕 *kaːnʔ
稈 *kaːnʔ
刊 *kʰaːn
靬 *kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan
衎 *kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns
犴 *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns
豻 *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̥ʰraːn
頇 *ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
岸 *ŋɡaːns
鼾 *qʰaːn, *ɢaːns
罕 *qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns
焊 *qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns
蔊 *qʰaːnʔ
虷 *ɡaːn
旱 *ɡaːnʔ
皔 *ɡaːnʔ
釬 *ɡaːns
扞 *ɡaːns
閈 *ɡaːns
馯 *ɡaːns, *kʰraːn
捍 *ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ
悍 *ɡaːns
銲 *ɡaːns
垾 *ɡaːns
駻 *ɡaːns
睅 *ɡʷranʔ
娨 *ɡraːns
飦 *kan
赶 *ɡan, *ɡʷad
軒 *qʰan
蓒 *qʰan
酐 *qʰaːŋʔ
澣 *ɡʷaːnʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 竿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古寒切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kan/
Li
Rong		 /kɑn/
Wang
Li		 /kɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 竿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤar/
English pole, rod

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 竿
Reading # 1/1
No. 3569
Phonetic
component		 干
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 干
Old
Chinese		 /*kaːn/

Definitions

竿

  1. bamboo pole
  2. ****
  3. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 一竿子
  • 三竿
  • 三竿日上
  • 危竿
  • 叉竿
  • 幕竿
  • 投竿
  • 探竿影草
  • 揭竿
  • 揭竿而起
  • 撐竿跳／撑竿跳
  • 旗竿
  • 日上三竿
  • 日出三竿
  • 更轉一竿／更转一竿
  • 望竿
  • 標竿／标竿
  • 滑竿
  • 火染旛竿
  • 爆竿
  • 爬竿
  • 百丈竿頭／百丈竿头
  • 百尺竿頭／百尺竿头
  • 立竿見影／立竿见影 (lìgānjiànyǐng)
  • 竹竿 (zhúgān)
  • 竹竿舞
  • 竿子 (gānzi)
  • 竿牘／竿牍
  • 竿累
  • 竿頭一步／竿头一步
  • 筋竿
  • 粘竿
  • 紅日三竿／红日三竿
  • 苞苴竿牘／苞苴竿牍
  • 萬丈竿頭／万丈竿头
  • 釣竿／钓竿 (diàogān)
  • 釣魚竿／钓鱼竿
  • 鉤竿子／钩竿子
  • 長竿／长竿
  • 順竿兒爬／顺竿儿爬
  • 順竿子／顺竿子
  • 高竿
  • 鬧竿兒／闹竿儿
  • 魚竿／鱼竿 (yúgān)

Japanese

Kanji

竿

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

竿 • ‎(gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan, Yale kan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

竿 (can, cần)

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