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Translingual

Han character

(radical 172 +10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿口口土 (TRRG), four-corner 44214, composition𨾴)

  1. (archaic) stork
  2. (archaic) heron

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1368, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42120
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1874, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4104, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+96DA

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwanH/
Li
Rong
/kuɑnH/
Wang
Li
/kuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.qʷˤar-s/
English heron

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 # 1/1
No. 4484
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːns/
Notes

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwan)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: gwan, McCune-Reischauer: kwan, Yale: kwan)
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See also