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Translingual

Han character

(radical 177 +6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十女廿十 (JVTJ), composition)

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References

  • KangXi: page 1387, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42814
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1902, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4335, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+978C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns, *qraːns
*qraːns
*qraːns
*qraːns
*qaːd
*qaːd
*qaːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔan/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑn/
Wang
Li
/ɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ān
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔan ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/
English [place name]

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. 13
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaːn/