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荃

荃

Translingual

Han character

荃 (radical 140 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿人一土 (TOMG), four-corner 44104)

  1. calamus
  2. pickled leaf mustard
  3. fish tackle
  4. fine cloth

References

  • KangXi: page 1030, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30934
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1489, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3206, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+8343

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 荃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (全) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
拴 *sroːn, *sʰlon
栓 *sroːn, *sron
跧 *ʔsroːn, *ʔsron, *ʔslun
痊 *sʰlon
詮 *sʰlon
荃 *sʰlon
銓 *sʰlon
筌 *sʰlon
輇 *sʰlon, *djon
硂 *sʰlon
佺 *sʰlon
駩 *sʰlon
絟 *sʰlon, *sʰlod
恮 *sʰlon, *ʔsron
峑 *sʰlon
全 *zlon
仝 *zlon, *doːŋ
牷 *zlon

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 荃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 此緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰwian/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰiuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 quān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 荃
Reading # 1/1
No. 10707
Phonetic
component		 全
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 詮
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰlon/

Definitions

荃

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Compounds

  • 曾國荃／曾国荃
  • 荃宰
  • 荃察
  • 荃葛
  • 荃蹄

Japanese

Kanji

荃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

荃 • ‎(jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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