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翰

翰

Translingual

Han character

翰 (radical 124 羽+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十十人尸一 (JJOSM), four-corner 48427)

  1. writing brush, pen, pencil

References

  • KangXi: page 958, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28780
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1405, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3353, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7FF0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 翰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (倝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
乾 *kaːn, *ɡran
漧 *kaːn
倝 *kaːns
榦 *kaːns
韓 *ɡaːn
鶾 *ɡaːn
翰 *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
瀚 *ɡaːns
螒 *ɡaːns
雗 *ɡaːns
斡 *qʷaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns) : phonetic 倝 ‎(OC *kaːns) + semantic 羽 ‎(“feather”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 翰 翰
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 寒 (61) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 胡安切 侯旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɑn/ /ɦɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦɑn/ /ɦɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦan/ /ɦanH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣɑn/ /ɣɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hán hàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 翰 翰 翰 翰
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hàn hàn hàn hàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hanH › ‹ hanH › ‹ hanH › ‹ hanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤar/ (MC implies *-s) /*[ɡ]ˤar-s/ /*[ɡ]ˤar-s/ /*m-kˤar-s/
English white (of a horse) pheasant; feather, wing high prop up, support

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 翰 翰
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3704 3705
Phonetic
component		 倝 倝
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 寒 翰
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡaːn/ /*ɡaːns/

Definitions

翰

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Japanese

Kanji

翰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

翰 • ‎(han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune-Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

翰 (hàn)

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