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U+501D, 倝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-501D

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 9, +8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十十人 (JJO), composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 108, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 779
  • Dae Jaweon: page 230, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 169, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+501D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𣉙
𠐱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kaːns) : semantic (sunrise) + phonetic ().

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter kanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kanH/
Li
Rong
/kɑnH/
Wang
Li
/kɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gon3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁar-s/
English sunrise (Shuowen)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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. 3700
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaːns/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete, of the rising sun) bright
  2. (obsolete) sunrise; dawn

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. sunrise
  2. dawn

Readings

  • On (unclassified): かん (kan)

Korean

Hanja

(eum (gan))

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