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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹一弓口 (HMNR), four-corner 88621, composition)

  1. (military, archaic) (conjecture) an Nanzhao era southwest Chinese polearm, potentially phonosemantically derived from (an ancient term for a halberd)
麗水, [Classical Chinese, trad.]
丽水, [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 21
Zhū, chū lìshuǐ, zhuāng yǐ jīn qióng tiě dàng, suǒ zhǐ wú bù dòng yě. [Pinyin]
The 'pearl polearm' is a product of Lí​shuǐ​, and is decorated with a golden fuller and an iron guard, and they are always hollow.

References

  • KangXi: page 881, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25951
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1310, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2953, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+7B34

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡ·raːlʔ
*kaːl
*kaːl, *ɡaːl
*kaːl
*kaːl
*kaːl
*kaːl
*kaːl
*kaːl
*kaːlʔ
*kaːlʔ
*kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ
*kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
*kʰaːl
*kʰaːlʔ
*kʰaːlʔ
*kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
*kʰaːls, *ɡaːl
*qʰaːl, *qʰaːls
*qʰaːl
*qʰaːl
*qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
*ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
*ɡaːl
*ɡaːl
*ɡaːl
*ɡaːls
*qaːl
*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
*qaːl, *kʰraːls
*qaːl
娿 *qaːl, *qaːlʔ
*qaːl
*kʰraːlʔ
*qʰraːlʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (61) (94)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɑnX/ /kɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɑnX/ /kɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɑnX/ /kɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kanX/ /kaX/
Li
Rong
/kɑnX/ /kɑX/
Wang
Li
/kɑnX/ /kɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kɑnX/ /kɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kanX ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˤarʔ/
English shaft of an arrow

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. 7443 7479
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaːlʔ/ /*kaːnʔ/

Definitions

  1. arrow shaft
  2. arrow

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings